It is manly for a man to love his wife. He was created a man expressly for this. It is the purest of emotions. Only when it is perverted is it indelicate. And if husbands and wives would but manifest more love in purity, they would experience far less of its animal aspect.
Conjugal duties are more obligatory than pecuniary, benevolent, neighborly, or filial.
He might recover, she never can. Your love renders her a thousand fold happier, and is more necessary to her whole future life, than your dollars to him. IT is her all. When it perishes, all perishes. Or, is she survives, her life is only automatic.