"Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself"

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

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

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

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband"