“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them”
“There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.”
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”
“If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly qualified, and highly experienced people who just manage to scrape by, if at all.”
“Some men never recover from education.”