“She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.”

“A woman once held a Canary in the palm of her hand and stroked her and whispered a careful warning. The canary, seeking some freedom to fly, went into the mine while the woman watched in worry. The mine was filled with toxic gases and the Canary began to sing. She flew into danger, realized the threats around her, and wished to return to a place of refuge.”

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned tyrant, held passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.”

“Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.”

“No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...”

“She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.”