Just close your eyes—and think of England.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.