Thursday Text: Nathaniel Hawthorne on marriage

During our courtship, Tony sent me some wonderful quotes from Nathaniel Hawthorne to his wife, Sophia. When we were married, he again quoted from Hawthorne. Last year on the occasion of our anniversary, I found the following quote that I really love. I guess it gets you in the spirit for Valentine's Day.

Nobody but we ever knew what it is to be married. If other people knew it, this dull old earth would have a perpetual glory round about it.


{Yes, I sneaked one of Thayer's paintings into this post.}