WOMAN is the nervous part of humanity; man, the muscular. JEAN NOËL HALLÉ. O WOMAN, Woman! thou art formed to bless the heart of restless man. J. BIRD. WOMEN are often ruined by their sensitiveness and saved by their coquetry. MLLE. AZAÏS. MAIDS must be wives and mothers to fulfil the entire and holiest end of woman's being. FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE BUTLER. It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. THE Society of women is the element of good manners. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. WOMAN is the Sunday of man. JULES MICHELET. Ir a woman has any malicious mischief to do, her memory is immortal. TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS. WHEN Women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained the age of forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it. NINON DE LENCLOS. EVEN if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover. HUGUES FÉLICITÉ ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS. IT has been justly observed that heroines are best painted in general terms. LEIGH HUNT. THE man who does not love women is one of Nature's blunders. an anomaly, an aggregation of crude material, an apology for what God intended him to be. Like Adam, we must all seek a missing rib in the gentler FREDERICK W. MORTON. My children, in marriage there is nothing good but the day before. OCTAVE FEUILLET. sex. NOTHING is so sure a cure for love of women as acquaintance with the men they admire. JEAN JACQUES WEISS. NATURE OF WOMAN'S SUPREMACY. "THE time will come, I trust, when women will no longer be contented with the few empty and exaggerated compliments in which men pay them off, angelic creatures!' 'poet's theme!' and so on; stuff that springs from what Diogenes calls the spooney view of women, and only applicable to the young and handsome, a very small minority. . . . The supremacy of women in this country is like that of the Mikado in Japan, a sovereign sacred and irresponsible, but on condition of sitting still and leaving the management of affairs, the real business of life, to others. It is the same theory of government with which the constitutionalists tormented the late Louis Philippe,- Le roi régne et ne gouverne pas. He was unwilling to accept such a position, and so am I. I cannot take a pride in insignificance and uselessness, although I confess with shame that most women do; the result of which is, that we have not the kind of influence we ought to have, and that a real, hearty, genuine respect for women does not exist. In every man's heart there lurks a mild contempt for us, because of our ignorance of business, politics, and practical matters generally outside of the nursery and the milliner's shop. The best of you look upon us and our doings as grown people look at pretty children and their plays, - with a good-natured feeling of superiority, and a smile half pleasure and half pity. The truth is that men have always despised us from the earliest times. At first we were mere slaves and drudges; then playthings, if handsome and lively, something to be brought on with the wine at a feast. Chivalry — which in newspaper rhetoric means devotion to women and respect knew little of either when it was alive and vigorous. The droits de bottage et de cuissage alone are enough to prove that. In our times, indeed, the savage view of woman as a slave has been softened by civilization into housekeeper and nurse; but it still lingers in every man's feelings. Woman's mission, in his eyes, is simply babies; to which is superadded the duty of making the father comfortable." FREDERICK SHELDON. XI. IF a woman refrains from absurd or hateful words and acts, and if she is beautiful to boot, we are straightway convinced that she is a paragon of wisdom and morality. COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOÏ. If we men require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them SAMUEL JOHNSON. honor. How many women since the days of Echo and Narcissus have pined themselves into air for the love of men who were in love only with themselves? MRS. ANNA JAMESON. AULD Nature swears, the lovely dears ROBERT BUrns. THE castle that parleys and the woman who listens are ready to surrender. FRENCH ADAGE. |