An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
William Makepeace ThackerayI wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
William Makepeace ThackerayIf people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray