William Penn

To delay justice, is injustice.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

For we put the power in the people.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

I am a black American male from Chicago, who had my rehearsal dinner at Versailles and then got married in Florence with a view of the entire city.

It was a very meaningful ceremony and marriage means a lot to me.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

He didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

[on Michelle] A dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

This is my first marriage. Beforehand, I was living in sin.

On Oct. 3, 1992, Barack and I were married in Chicago – and every day since, I’ve grown prouder and more in love with him.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.