Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage
a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every
lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable
purity 
If it is the result of a pure love, there can be
nothing sensual in marriage Chastity is
something positive, not negative. It is the virtue
of the married especially All lusts or base
pleasures must give place to loftier delights!
They who meet as superior beings can not
perform the deeds of inferior ones. The deeds of
love are less questionable than any action of an
individual can be, for, it being founded on the
rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly
stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life,
and the act in which they are associated must be
pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity
can have no equal. In this relation we deal with
one whom we respect more religiously even than
we respect our better selves, and we shall
necessarily conduct as in the presence of God.
"What presence can be more awful to the lover
than the presence of his beloved?
If you seek the warmth even of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, because your temperature is low through sloth, you are on the downward road, and it is but to plunge yet deeper into sloth. Better the cold affection of the sun, reflected from fields of ice and snow, or his warmth in some still wintry dell. The warmth of celestial love does not relax, but nerves and braces its enjoyer. Warm your body by healthful exercise, not by cowering over a stove. Warm
your spirit by performing independently noble
