"Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence."
"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."
Doug Larson on Anniversary"We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
W. Somerset Maugham on Anniversary"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
Martin Luther on Anniversary"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
Benjamin Franklin on Anniversary"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
George Bernard Shaw on Anniversary"For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith."
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."
"The family is the school of duties - founded on love."
"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."
"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."