A good businessman never makes a contract unless hes sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. – Dalton Trumbo
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you. – Millicent Carey McIntosh
The soul of the artist is oppressed by the atmosphere of the counting-house. – Franz von Dingelstedt, Die Amazone: Novelle, 1869, translated from German by J.M