Love and respect have nothing to do with controlling what other people do

Does [he] imagine that I could desire a mere woman, when [she] is my wife?

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

She understands my heart better than you do, and I can speak her thoughts almost before she speaks them

There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in …

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love…

Would I tame this great being and make her so much my slave that every moment of her time belongs to me? Would I focus her eyes so they can see nothing but my …