When an ordinary man and woman decide on marriage the step is remarkable enough. Two people who don’t know each other to any extent (they cannot!) invite each other to all meals, and to bed, and to house, for the rest of their lives. It sounds crazy. It often works. Even so it is an extraordinary venture, no matter how often or universally done. If one of the couple is a genius, an additional hazard of uncertain and possibly appalling proportions is present. If both of them are a genius it is worse.
—John Stewart Collis, The Carlyles: A Biography of Thomas and Jane Carlyle, p. 36.
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