There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.