Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet

Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”
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First published in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 1, part 2 (1881).