Ross Winn,
Free Marriage
(1900)
“ I am old-fashioned and orthodox to that extent—I believe in love. I believe in the beauty of family life, and in the reality of family ties. I would rather be the sole monarch of one true woman's heart than the temporary lover of a dozen Cleopatras, whose charms are mostly second-hand, and in whose love-caresses I may see the practiced art of the refined harlot. The family is the foundation of all refinement, of all morality, of all that is noble and pure in human character and thought ”
