Though there are instances of premature marriages followed by no evil result, but rather the contrary, there can be no doubt, that the only prudent course is to wait till a settlement in life, and a regular income, have been secured.

A young man, anxious for other reasons to marry, is sometimes heard to express his conviction that he might live more cheaply married than single.
There could be no assertion more inconsistent with all common experience.

Even if no positively ruinous consequences arise from an over-early marriage, it almost always occasions much hardship.

It saddens a period of life which nature has designed to be peculiarly cheerful.

The whole life of such a man becomes like a year in which there has been no May or June.