IV. THE best woman is the one least talked about. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER. In this advanced century a girl of sixteen knows as much as her mother, and enjoys her knowledge much more. ANONYMOUS. In love, a woman is like a lyre that surrenders its secrets only to the hand that knows how to touch its strings. HONORÉ DE BALZAC. WHETHER Sunn'd in the tropics or chill'd at the pole, If woman be there, there is happiness too. THOMAS MOORE. A WOMAN is most merciless when shame goads on her hate. DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS. MEN say knowledge is power; women think dress is power. FREDERICK SHELDON. NAY, women are frail too. Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves; Which are as easy broke as they make forms. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. SHE is the most virtuous woman whom Nature has made the most voluptuous, and reason the coldest. LA BEAUMElle. FOR One woman who affronts her kind by wicked passions or remorseless hate, a thousand make amends in age and youth. CHARLES MACKAY, To a woman of delicate feeling, the most persuasive declaration of love is the embarrassment of an intellectual man. NICOLAS VALENTIN DE LATÉNA. A COQUETTE is to a man what a toy is to a child; as long as it pleases him he keeps it. ANONYMOUS. WHEN a woman once begins to be ashamed of what she ought not to be ashamed of, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. TITUS LIVIUS. FRIEND, beware of fair maidens! When their tenderness begins, our servitude is VICTOR HUGO. near. A PRETTY Woman's worth some pains to see. ROBERT BROWNING. THOU art a woman. And that is saying the best and worst of PHILIP JAMES Bailey. thee. THAT perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems incapable, but which is sometimes found in women. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. WOMEN distrust men too much in general, and not enough in particular. PHILIBERT COMMERSON. EVEN when fortunate, woman scarcely breathes it to herself; but when otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace. WASHINGTON IRVING. IF you wish a coquette to regard you, cease to regard her. ANONYMOUS. THERE are twenty-four hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. J. DE FINOD. MOST women are better out of their houses than in them. TACITUS. How many women are born too finely organized in sense and soul for the highway they must walk with feet unshod! OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE world was sad; the garden was a wild! And man, the hermit, sigh'd― till woman THOMAS CAMPBELL. smiled. WOMEN are rakes by nature and prudes from necessity. FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. WHAT means did the devil find out, or what instrument did his own subtlety present him, as fittest and aptest to work his mischief by? Even the unquiet vanity of the SIR WALTER RALEIGH. woman. AN obscure mist of sighs exhales out of the solitude of women in the nineteenth century. WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER. THE position that was gradually assigned to the Virgin as the female ideal in the belief and the devotion of Christendom, was a consecration or an expression of the new value that was attached to the female virtues. WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY. Ir a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed. GEORGE ELIOT. THE first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection. Women make light of these, asking only love. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. A MAN is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner than when his wife talks Greek. SAMUEL JOHNSON. WOMAN delights in the pure and noble; she brooks the ignoble and gross. FREDERICK W. MORTON. MEN say more evil of women than they think; it is the contrary with women toward S. DUBAY. men. A WOMAN'S rank lies in the fulness of her womanhood; therein alone she is royal. GEORGE ELIOT. THE deceit of priests and the cunning of women surpass all else. GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER. NOTHING is better than a good wife; and nothing is worse than a bad one, who is fond of gadding about. HESIOD |