“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and his wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It’s our only joke. Every woman knows that.James M. Barrie
“I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight. John Milton
““Nothing, so it seems to me,” said the stranger, “is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life…. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer.”Jerome K. Jerome