“Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.”
“..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.”
“I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.”
“In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.”
“a good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
“The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”