The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. – Mark Twain
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. – Theodore Dreiser, 1941