Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Threatened men live long.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.