"We were so grateful for this that we hardly, then, thought of our burning house and the spoiling of goods. ... But the Friend who had restrained the mob from touching us the hours we were alone on the river bank, we knew could now say, "Thus far; but no farther.""
— Mary Hannah Fulton
Source: "Inasmuch": Extracts from Letters, Journals, Papers, etc. (1915), Chapter II, "Canton" (Kwai Ping riot, May 1886)