There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
Love is a reciprocity of soul and has a different end and obeys different laws from marriage.
Piccolomini Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards. A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. I feel sure that no girl could go to the altar, and would probably refuse, if she knew all . . . .