Therefore we of necessity are unlike, and could never be much company for each other.

There is never any use in trying to ignore the old law of 'like unto like.' I say this in explanation of what you know is true all the world over.

Even the close ties of kindred often count for little where tastes, occupations, and habits of thought are diverse.

All this is nothing against your perfect right to please yourself.

In this land, thank Heaven! families and friends cannot yoke people together to pull forward general and miscellaneous interests." "You speak as if it were a slight thing when the woman whom a man marries is merely accepted, tolerated, by his kindred." "I have not said that, Graydon; I have only said again what I said before--that a man has a right to please himself.