A helpless, dependent, undeveloped, sentimental woman is not an inspirer of ideals. The man absorbed and involved in business is not an awakener or reminder of the Perfect.
A little time is necessary for the appreciation of the beautiful, the charming, the wonderful in life.
Leisure to think together and work together on things of mutual interest, is necessary to marriage, or there can be little love.
When lovers are independently dependent upon each other, it is a wonderful privilege to meet.
When lovers are economically free, as they were before marriage, there is no asking of favors nor demanding rights.
When lovers are grateful for the privilege of being together, and meet only when it is a joy to do so, love will abide.
And Romance, that lured them to life, and lighted their path to marriage, will ever illumine the way, even unto death.
If a woman’s desire is to seek ease and luxury, and find oblivion, let her not marry, for that is not the easiest way thither. A woman has neither natural nor moral right to involve others in her selfishness.
If a man wants adoration, comfort, indulgence, cheap service and ease, let him not marry. He probably can get them all with more certainty and with less expense without marrying. A man has neither natural nor moral right to marry for these.
Men and women have not evolved far. “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.”