I could not go on with my task if it were not for the refreshing calm of Marie's companionship.

It would be impossible to find a disposition forming a happier contrast to my own.
In my perpetual irritability of body and mind, she is a providential resource that never fails me." [2013] M.Guizot was, in like manner, sustained and encouraged, amidst his many vicissitudes and disappointments, by his noble wife.

If he was treated with harshness by his political enemies, his consolation was in the tender affection which filled his home with sunshine.

Though his public life was bracing and stimulating, he felt, nevertheless, that it was cold and calculating, and neither filled the soul nor elevated the character.

"Man longs for a happiness," he says in his 'Memoires,' "more complete and more tender than that which all the labours and triumphs of active exertion and public importance can bestow.