THERE is no grace that is taught by the dancing-master, no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and mere action of some brilliant woman. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. THE Conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china; it is nothing, yet, without it, everything would be broken. Mme. de SALM. MORE joy it gives to woman's breast THOMAS Moore. THE Woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hope to her suitor. MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. ONE single honest man may yet be seen; but wander all the world round to find one honest woman, he will search in vain. CHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELAND. A WOMAN forgives the audacity which her beauty has prompted us to be guilty of. ALAIN RENÉ LESAGE To marry a wife, if we regard the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil. MENANDER. THE nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in woman by the heart it is there that they are most sensitive. MARIE HENRI BEYLE In her first passion, woman loves her lover; In all the others, all she loves is love. LORD BYRON. THERE will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. STANISLAS DE BOUFLERS. WHEN a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. THE virtue of widows is a laborious virtue ; they have to combat constantly with the remembrance of past bliss. SAINT JEROME. A WOMAN whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal capacity. JOHN CASPAR LAVATER. WOMAN'S natural mission is to love, to love but one, to love always. JULES MICHELET. ONE reason why women are forbidden to preach the gospel is that they would persuade without argument and reprove without giving offence. JOHN NEWTON. THE last act in woman's comedy may turn to tragedy. The smiles of the morning may set in bitterest tears. All about her oasis of coquetry lies the blistering sand of desolation. JUNIUS HENRI Browne. He bears an honorable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. WOMEN are compounds of plain-sewing and make-believe, daughters of Sham and FREDERICK SHELDON. Hem. THE Sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. BARRY CORNWALL. FINESSE has been given to woman to com pensate the force of man. PIERRE DE LACLOS. WOMEN are demons who make us enter hell through the door of paradise. ANONYMOUS. It is to teach us early how to think and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent nature has given to women so much chitchat. JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE. Он, woman! woman! thou shouldst have few sins of thy own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man! EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON. WOMAN'S dignity lies in her being unknown; her glory in the esteem of her husband; and her pleasure in the welfare of her family. JEAN JACQUES Rousseau. THOU knowest the ways of women; while they are setting themselves off and tricking out their persons, it is an age. PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER. In love, she who gives her portrait prom ises the original. ANTOINE DUPUY. THE man who seems to care little whether he charms or attracts women is he who offends and seduces. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. To correct the faults of man, we address the head; to correct those of woman, we address the heart. EDME PIERRE CHANVOT DE BEAUCHÊNE. THE man flaps about with a bunch of feathers; the woman goes to work softly with a cloth. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. GLORY can be for a woman but the bril liant mourning of happiness. LET her have a dozen admirers, and the dear coquette will exercise her power upon them all; and as a lady, when she has a large wardrobe, and a taste for variety in dress, will appear every day in a different costume. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. IN anger against a rival all women, even duchesses, employ invective. Then they make use of everything as a weapon. ANONYMOUS. THE Egyptian people, wisest then of nations, gave to their Spirit of Wisdom the form of a woman; and into her hand, for a symbol, the weaver's shuttle. JOHN RUSKIN. THE life of a woman can be divided into three epochs in the first she dreams of love, in the second she experiences it, in the third she regrets it. ANTOINE JEAN CASSÉ DE SAINT-PROSPER |