A Husband (n.) thinks he has performed, simply by getting married, the most complicated passage in all music — pagan, Christian, duty, partnership, elective affinity — and performs it "immediately," without reflection.
A Husband (n.) is declined by fate in all genders, numbers and cases: the more positive a man's resolution, the more declinable he becomes.
A Husband (n.) is always in love — and if he isn't, he will never understand what love is.
A Husband (n.) who is well brought up is known like a well-brought-up child: by being delighted with what he gets — in other words, he is in love — not by being his wife's critic and censor.
A Husband (n.) is the loving youth absolutely — his love unchanged, with the sacred beauty of resolution added; love makes him older by bestowing the youth of eternity.
A Husband (n.) needs a sense for insignificant things, a memory for small matters, and some talent for interpolating a bit of significance — qualities I think I have.
A Husband (n.) whose wife has no share in his higher existence would be a pasha with three horsetails.
A Husband (n.) honors himself in his wife; he who does not, despises himself.
A Husband (n.) worthy of the ideal is not a husband once in his life but every single day — which is why no painter can capture him.