"Is not marriage an open question, when..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.”

“The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.”

“Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.”

“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”

“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“He liked her; it was as simple as that.”

“He that takes a wife, takes care”