Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

The saying "Till death do us part simply means,so long as we are in agreement,death shall be the only device that will separate us.

"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.