A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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