It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.