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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
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's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.
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.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.