Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. - Samuel Johnson

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.

Nothing ... will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.