No Sensible Man Ever Engages,

Any Woman Who Is Sure Of Her Own Wits, Is A Match, At Any Time, For A Man Who Is Not Sure Of His Own Temper.

This Is The Story Of What A Woman's Patience Can Endure, And What A Man's Resolution Can Achieve.

I Am An Average Good Christian, When You Don't Push My Christianity Too Far. And All The Rest Of You—which Is A Great Comfort—are, In This Respect, Much The Same As I Am.

The Horrid Mystery Hanging Over Us In This House Gets Into My Head Like Liquor, And Makes Me Wild.

...it Will Always Remain My Private Persuasion That Nature Was Absorbed In Making Cabbages When Mrs. Vesey Was Born, And That The Good Lady Suffered The Consequences Of A Vegetable Preoccupation In The Mind Of The Mother Of Us All.