Цитаты из книги Married Love

“A person can therefore no more promise to love or not to love than he can promise to live long. What he can promise is to take good care of his life and of his love.—Ellen Key”

“A wise man once said that a woman deserved no credit for her beauty at sixteen, but beauty at sixty was her own soul's doing.”

“A young man or woman perfectly naked cannot be tawdry”

“It is generally supposed that happy people, like happy nations, have no history—they are silent about their own affairs. Those who talk about their marriage are generally those who have missed the happiness they expected”

...one might compare two human beings to two bodies charged with electricity of different potentials. Isolated from each other the electric forces within them are invisible, but if they come into the right juxtaposition the force is transmuted, and a spark, a glow of burning light arises between them. Such is love

...the sternest man of affairs, he who may have worldly success of every sort, may yet, through the lack of a real mate, live with a sense almost as though the limbs of his soul had been amputated

“The search for a mate is a quest for an understanding heart clothed in a body beautiful, but unlike our own.”