Litchfield Enquirer

Rational Love.

We all know the power of beauty. But to render it permanent, and make human life more happy and agreeable, it must have the beauties of the mind annexed. For, as Dr. Blair very justly observes—'Feeble are the attractions of the fairest form, if nothing within corresponds to the pleasing appearance without.'

Love and marriage are two words much spoken of but seldom found united. To be happy in the choice of the fair one we admire, is to cultivate the regard we experience for her, into lasting esteem. The connubial state was certainly designed to heighten the joys and to alleviate the miseries of mortality; to caress and admire her, who came into your arms the object of joy and pleasure; and to comfort the same dear object of your affections, when the clouds of adversity surround her; happy within yourself and happy in your connections, you ought to look up to the author of all good gifts; and what avail all the pleasures of this sublunary state, if when we shift the flattering scene, the man is unhappy, where the happiness should begin, at home?

An uninterrupted interchange of mutual endearments, among those of the same family, imparts more solid satisfaction than outward appearances with inward uneasiness. Love is a tender and delicate plant; it must be guarded from all inclement blasts, or it will droop its head and die.

—New Bedford Gaz.