“My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.Source: To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678)
“Then while we live, in love let's so persever That when we live no more, we may live ever.Source: To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678)
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
“Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
“The common happiness of two people is nothing more as two small, incised lines next to each other into infinity.
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.