It's a thing about which nobody ever ought to give anybody any advice--so I'll give you some.

Marry whoever you damn please.

It'll be all the same after that oak I planted this morning is half grown." "Gordon," he said, surprised, "I didn't suppose _you_ were liberal." "Liberal! Why, man alive! Do you think a fellow can live out of doors as I have lived, and see germs sprout, and see mountain ranges decay, and sit on a few glaciers, and swing a pick into a mother-lode--and _not_ be liberal?
Do you suppose ten-cent laws bother me when I'm up against the blind laws that made the law-makers ?--laws that made life itself before Christ lived to conform to them ?...

I married where I loved.

It chanced that my marriage with your sister didn't clash with the sanctified order of things in Manhattan town.