“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
“The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”
“There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.”
“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.”