The following remark was no less wise. A father with only one daughter asked Themistocles whether he should marry her off to a man who...

If ever some argument arose between a man and his wife, they would go to the shrine of the goddess Viriplaca, which is on the Palatine....

On a train trip to the North Truett became seriously ill with food poisoning. Subsequent test showed him to have an adverse reaction to certain foods, only he could never seem to remember which ones. When the children were grown Mrs. Truett, her husband’s constant shield, traveled with him everywhere. She became his official food taster. Whether they were at a banquet, on a train, or in a restaurant, Mrs. Truett first tasted every food on her husband’s plate before he would e

His first, Catherine "Kitty" Garniss‑a warm, outgoing, attractive young woman whom he loved passionately‑died in 1835 from complications of childbirth after eighteen months of marriage. She was only twenty-three. Her death was "so overwhelming, so unexpected," he told his friend Cleveland, that he could barely function. "I wish you could have known her," he wrote. "She was universally beloved by her acquaintances….She was gifted with unusual intellectual power…And now I feel