When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ev...er so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's comfort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The secret of heaven is kept from age to age. No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings ...of saints, the fears of mortals. We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents, and could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not think ...of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »