I dare say divorce is quite as hazardous as marriage, though possibly most people divorce with a somewhat riper discretion than they marry with.

But the point is that neither marriage nor divorce can be considered a royal road to happiness, and a woman ought to get her impetus in either case from her own inner consciousness.

I should call divorcing by advice quite as silly as marrying by it." "But it comes at last to her own law in her own heart ?" "When she has awakened to it--when she honestly feels it.

God's law for woman is the same as for man--and he has but two laws for both that are universal and unchanging: The first is, they are bound at all times to desire happiness; the second is, that they can be happy only by being wise--which is what we sometimes mean when we say 'good,' but of course no one knows what wisdom is for all, nor what goodness is for all, because we are not mechanical dolls of the same pattern.

That's why I reverence God--the scheme is so ingenious--so productive of variety in goodness and wisdom.