Excerpt from Select Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer At the age of thirty-eight, the elder Schopenhauer selected for marriage Johanna Trosiener, the daugh ter of a Danzig senator. Sagacious, witty, talkative, and not\ without personal charms, she afterwards gained a reputation as a novelist and writer of travels. Her husband was twenty years her senior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.