I Have a Wife, and I Love Her

"I had long since made up my mind from observation of the good or bad luck of other men, that he who happens to be blessed with a wife possessing good sense and good judgment succeeds or fails in life. There is a world of caution, shrewdness, and latent wisdom in such women which their husbands to frequently disregard to their ruin." "As it is success that makes the hero, so let my experience be accepted as the test," says Henry David Thoreau. 'This is really a domestic story intended for the multitude to have suffered half a lifetime from trials similar to mine'