The Mystery of Marriage

"It has been said that the secret to building a good fire is simply to rest one log against another. Marriage builds a good hot fire on the simple principle of resting one man and one woman up against each other in a hypostatic (slow settling) union of persons. 'As iron sharpens iron,' says the proverb, 'so one person sharpens another,' and the saying is nowhere more apt than in marriage." -Mike Mason in The Mystery of Marriage