Of all the words in the English language 'honeymoon' is the most ridiculous and imbecile." "I suppose when you get married you will take a honeymoon." "I shall have more sense and more selfishness.

A girl could hardly enter a new life through a medium more trying.

I am sure it would need long-tested affections and the sweetest of tempers to make it endurable." "I cannot imagine what you mean." "I mean that all traveling just after marriage is a great blunder.
Traveling makes the sunniest disposition hasty and peevish, for women don't love changes as men do.

Not one in a thousand is seen at her best while traveling, and the majority are seen at their very worst.

Then there is the discomfort and desolation of European hotels--their mysterious methods and hours, and the ways of foreigners, which are not as our ways." "Don't talk of them, Ethel.