14. Test Carefully the Effect of Protracted Association.—If familiarity breeds contempt before marriage it will afterward.
15. Test Carefully the Effect of Protracted Separation.—True love will defy both time and space.
16. Consider Carefully the right of your children under the laws of heredity. It is doubtful whether you have a right to increase the number of invalids and cripples.
17. Do Not Marry Simply Because You Have Promised to Do So.—If a seam opens between you now it will widen into a gulf. It is less offensive to retract a mistaken promise than to perjure your soul before the altar. Your intended spouse has a right to absolute integrity.
GOING TO BE MARRIED
18. Marry Character.—It is not so much what one has as what one is.
19. Do Not Marry the Wrong Object.—Themistocles said he would rather marry his daughter to a man without money than to money with a man. It is well to have both. It is fatal to have neither.