In other words, a man needn't be rich when he marries--but he should not be broke, either.
Lack of funds a few days after the honeymoon is too hard a test for matrimony to bear nobly.

It is too much like inviting a catastrophe through lack of good, hard sense to begin with.

It shows poor generalship at the very start--and there is the liability of causing great distress and hardship to a tender-hearted little woman.

It would be a sad blow to her to find that the man of her choice was, after all, just an ordinary fellow--_a man without foresight_.
There are four seasons in married life--spring, summer, fall and winter, and we are going to need a comrade as we go through each of them.

And the one we want _is the one we start with_--the gentle partner in all our joys and sorrows.