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In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not, as we feel in a thousand instances.

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it

we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection

Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.

When gone from hence, may nobody think of me again, except when one or two may think perhaps how I loved them

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.

The man who doubts it, can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves; sunrise itself is a lesser marvel.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Tell all my friends in Concord that I do not send my love, but retain it still.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.