Reflecting on these events makes me grateful for the blessings of home and family, and in particular for 70 years of marriage. I don't know that anyone had invented the term 'platinum' for a 70th wedding anniversary when I was born. You weren't expected to be around that long.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception".

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

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

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.