Quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is with religion as with marriage. A youth marries in haste; afterwards, when his mind is opened to the reason of the conduct of life, he is asked, what he thinks of the institution of marriage, and of the right relations of the sexes? "I should have much to say," he might reply, "if the question were open, but I have a wife and children, and all question is closed for me."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Religion," English Traits (1856).
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