The bread-winner must toil as in the fruitless effort of a troubled dream while the expenditure of an uneducated wife discounts th...e income in the lack of understanding to discern the broad possibilities of an intelligent economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou lo...ve her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of... right and wrong in my life--ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Owning a wife with him meant owning her. She wasn't anybody else's business,... Either to praise her or so much as name her, And he'd thank people not to think of her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I, his wife, rested and was warmed in the sunlight of his loyal love, and glorious fame, and now, even though his beautiful lif...e has gone out, it is as when some far off planet disappears from the heavens, the light of his great fame still falls upon and warms me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them ...so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could not help but say that Mr. Carlyle seemed the only virtuous philosopher we had. Upon which his wife answered, "My dear, if ...Mr. Carlyle's digestion had been stronger, there is no saying what he might have been!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »