On no other subject do young people need wise, loving counsel more than in choosing for marriage. One reason is that it is possible to make a mistake. Not every marriage is happy. Of all mistakes this is one of the saddest, for it is irretrievable. If a man does not like his house, he can move out of it. If your companions are not congenial, you can drop them. But when you have taken the marriage vows there is no honorable release.
A wise marriage leads a man to the noblest, truest, fullest, and best life. Thousands of men owe all their success and prosperity to their choice of a wife. She has been the good angel of their destiny. There is a fable of a lump of common clay which was made fragrant by the rose which rested beside it. Countless men of common mould have been transformed into rare beauty, refinement, and grace of character, by the gentle woman whom they were so blessed as to find for a wife. A wise man wants a wife who will make something of him, whose influence will ever inspire him to do his best.
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