"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"He is not a lover who does not love forever"

"I love to travel, but hate to arrive"

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"