Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor-which is one very strong argument in favour of Matrimony...

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

'I am afraid,' replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'

I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.

There is a persistent myth that a wife has control over her husband's money because she gets to spend it. Actually, she does not have much more financial autho…

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern w…