When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

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.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.