Wives?' she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, 'None active,' as if wives were volcanoes.

Dare to love greatly.

Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!

Love is happiness of the spirit.

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

God will fulfil His gracious promises.

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage.