“Clearly, the central argument of the opponents to marriage is that it is an institution whose purpose is to stabilize something that cannot be stabilized, to make something last that will not last. All are agreed that physical love is as natural an instinct as huger or thirst, but the permanence of love is not instinctive. If, as is the case with so many men, physical love must have change, then why the promise of a life's devotion?”

“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, — the fear instinct.”

“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.”

“Most philosophers cannot last in a marriage because they cannot use the agree-to-disagree method before something that is totally out of their morals.”

“All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.”

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”

“Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.”

“If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.”

“To love with all your heart is forcing yourself to go beyond the physical attributes and focus on something much bigger.”

“The joys of love… last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”