I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other read more

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him read more

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to read more

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as read more

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality read more

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.