I quoted at the start: "Not one-half of our marriages have unbiased love
as a foundation on both sides. (The love is usually on the man's side.)
A woman marries for money, position, spite, pride, contrariness, fear of
being an old maid, or for a home which she thinks will afford her more
pleasure than the one she leaves. Love is the last thing to enter her
head, and never her heart. Men of real sound judgment in business throw
this judgment entirely aside when they come to select a wife. A man
might better remain single than marry with the chances nine out of ten
in favor of his making a mistake for life."