660 See how the skillful lover spreads his toils !— Stillingfleet. 661 That man that has a tongue, I say, is no man if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Shakespeare. 662 -- The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. Addison. 663 It is better not to base any plea for woman on the ground of her angelic superiority. The argument proves too much. If she is already so perfect, there is every inducement to let well alone. - Higginson. 664 Love supreme defies all sophistry. - George Eliot. 665 Women distrust men too much in general, and too little in particular. - Commerson. 666 It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never. - Pascal. The laughter of girls 657 is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. De Quincey. 668 Comparison will prove, what has been so often remarked, that female correspondence has a charm in it, of which that of my sex is always devoid. — Earl of Eldon. 669 Love is an Oriental despot. Mme. Swetchine. 670 At first babes feed on the mother's bosom, but always on her heart. — Beecher. 671 No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty, of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. Chapin. 672 Above other features which adorn the female character, delicacy stands foremost within the province of good taste. Not that delicacy which is perpetually in quest of something to be ashamed of, which makes merit of a blush, and simpers at the false construction its own ingenuity has put upon an innocent remark, this spurious kind of delicacy is as far removed from good taste as from good feeling and good sense; but the high-minded delicacy, which maintains its pure and undeviating walk alike amongst women as in the society of men, — which shrinks from no necessary duty, and can speak, when required, with seriousness and kindness, of things at which it would be ashamed to smile or to blush. —Thackeray. 673 A woman cannot love a man whom she feels to be her inferior; love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship. George Sand. 674 A woman whom we truly love is a religion. -Emil de Girardin. 675 Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality and grace in their moderation. -Joubert. 676 Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its centre and ornament. Nor is there a paradise planted till the children appear in the foreground to animate and complete the picture. — Alcott. 677 Love is lowliness: on the wedding ring sparkles no jewels. Richter. 678 A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person; it may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love. Shenstone. 679 Women are vivified by love, as the flowers by falling showers. · Lamartine. 680 Men talk in raptures of youth and beauty, wit and sprightliness; but after seven years of union, not one of them is to be compared to good family management, which is seen at every meal, and felt every hour in the husband's purse. Witherspoon. 681 A sweet expression is the highest type of female loveliness. Dr. J. V. C. Smith. 682 A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses. Whittier. 683 No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. - Burnap. 684 The feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. — Richter. 685 A face like nestling luxury of flowers. - Massey. 686 The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in ; but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another. - George Eliot. 687 A good heart will at all times betray the best head in the world. Fielding. 688 There are many lovable women, but no perfect ones. -Victor Hugo. 689 The good husband keeps his wife in the wholesome ignorance of unnecessary secrets. They will not be starved with the ignorance who, perchance, may surfeit with the knowledge of weighty counsels, too heavy for the weaker sex to bear. He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. Steele. 690 To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, in a word, to be the idol of one's idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; it is stealing fire from heaven, and deserves death. Mme. de Girardin. 691 There are very few people who are not ashamed of their amours when the fit is over. - Rochefoucauld. 692 The young girl who begins to experience the necessity of loving seeks to hide it; but the desire of pleasing betrays the secret of her heart, and sometimes reveals her hopes. Beauchêne. 693 Love is the smallest part of gallantry. - Rochefoucauld. 694 A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. Colton. 695 Let the sexes be held to like purity of morals and equal justice meted to them for any infraction of the laws of social order. Women are the natural leaders of society in whatever concerns private morals. Alcott. 696 Love reasons without reason. Shakespeare. 697 The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine; sacrifice no more saint-like abnegation. Sainte-Foix. 698 Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. Richter. 699 Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often proves, the end. -Alphonse Karr. 700 Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughter, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. - Zim mermann. 701 Life is a flower of which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo. |