Anything that makes strong appeal to the best exercise of one's faculties is beneficent and, in most cases, worthy of reverence.

Indeed, it is in the short season of which I am speaking that we always discover the best of everything in the character of woman or of man.

In that period the evil qualities, the ungenerous side, is usually kept as much out of sight as possible.
Now for all these suggested reasons, as for many others which might be suggested, the period of illusion in love is really the period which poets and writers of romance are naturally justified in describing.

Can they go beyond it with safety, with propriety?
That depends very much upon whether they go up or down.

By going up I mean keeping within the region of moral idealism.