From Wedlok.com

“It takes years to marry completely two hearts …
even the most loving and well assorted.
A happy wedlock is a falling in love.
Young persons think love belongs to the brow-haired
and crimson cheeked.
So it does for its beginning.
But the golden marriage is part of love
which the bridal day knows nothing of...
Such a large and sweet fruit is marriage
that is needs a long summer to ripen,
and then a long winter to mellow and season it.”

-- Theodore Parker