I recommend Gilbert K. Chesterton as one intellectual writer and philosopher you should care to read about. All I know about him is that he was a former Anglican who converted to Catholicism because he realized the errors of his ways and found it later. He is also known as the Apostle of Common Sense. Here are his thoughts about love, marriage, and the sexes - hah, my favorite topic!
"Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all." - Heretics, 1905
"A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage." - Chaucer
"Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men." - A Handful of Authors
"The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis." - "David Copperfield," Chesterton on Dickens, 1911
"A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is." - Robert Browning
"Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue." - Chesterton on Dickens
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline." - Manalive
"The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous." - ILN 1/9/09
"I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess." - The Victorian Age in Literature
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