It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.