Jane Welsh Carlyle
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth: it is either altogether useless or altogether miserable; if the parties continue faithfully attached to each other it is a mere ceremony — if otherwise it comes a galling fetter riveting them to wretchedness and only to be … [ Read more ]
Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Love, Psychology | Behavior, Relationships