Marriage, Like Death, Is A Debt We

My Children Are Babies And My Husband Has Scarcely Half An Hour In 24 To Give Me.

When I Behold The Passion For Ornamentation, And The Corresponding Power, I Feel As If Women Had So Far Shown What They Are Bad For, Rather Than What They Are Good For.

When I See The Elaborate Study And Ingenuity Displayed By Women In The Pursuit Of Trifles, I Feel No Doubt Of Their Capacity For The Most Herculean Undertakings.

The Flag Of Our Stately Battles, Not Struggles Of Wrath And Greed, Its Stripes Were A Holy Lesson, Its Spangles A Deathless Creed: 't Was Red With The Blood Of Freemen And White With The Fear Of The Foe; And The Stars That Fight In Their Courses 'gainst Tyrants Its Symbols Know.

Much Of The Work Of Every Life Is Done In The Dark.