littlegirlvoice: What a blessed thing it is for a man to love his wife and be satisfied with her, an
littlegirlvoice: What a blessed thing it is for a man to love his wife and be satisfied with her, and to think her the fairest being in all the world; and how thrice happy is he who can stretch out the sweetest season of his existence, the days of triumphant courtship, through the flying years of all his life, and then lie down to die in the quieted ecstasy of a first love. -When Knighthood Was In Flower, or The Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King’s sister, and happening in the reign of his August Majesty, King Henry VIII. -- source link