As I am fonder of little girls than I am of boys, so old ladies appeal to me more than old men. They fill a place in life that would be quite bare without them. There is a certain something about them quite indescribable. They make much of the mellowness of life, and not a little of its fragrance. Some of them have a beauty with which the beauty of the most radiant belle can hardly compare.

Thomas Nelson Page.

There is always something pathetic in the adoration of a young girl for an older woman; she gives so much, and can, of necessity, receive so little; yet, with the exception of motherhood, it is perhaps the most unselfish affection which a woman's life can hold.

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler.

"There is one thing about modern society that puzzles me," said the philosopher.

"What's that?"

"The older women are all the time anxious to get in; the young and pretty ones want to come out."

"Smart Set."

The old man looks down and thinks of the past; The young man looks up and thinks of the future; The child looks everywhere and thinks of nothing.

Selected.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; old age is slow in both.

ful.

Joseph Addison.

Manhood, when verging into age, grows thought

Capel Lofft.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Francis Bacon.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.

Quoted by Camden as a Saying of
Dr. Metcalf.

Money is time; the millionaire is your only Methuselah. Israel Zangwill.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

A woman happily in love is at her best. Every outward charm has an added glory, and every potentiality of her soul, heart, conscience and intellect is aroused. The plainest, so influenced, will appear almost beautiful, the dullest gain a kind of wit, the coldest can be kind. They are transfigured, glorified, inspired beings. John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie).

The average woman loves a man, aside from his love for her, for his physical strength, and his stiff truth-telling. The first is attractive to her because she has it not. Far be it from man to say why the second attracts.

Paul Leicester Ford.

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it. Margaret Fuller.

That tender light that never was on sea or land dawns only on a woman's face when her soul is awakening to love.

Amelia E. Barr.

Woman's love is but an echo, and her heart only whispers the word in answer to a man's voice.

Maud Wilder Goodwin.

Men in love labour at once under every disadvantage. Their judgment is dethroned; their strength mocks them; their associates complain of their wandering tempers; they get haggard and feel hunted; they pursue their Fairs and are pursued themselves by all the devils. A hungry madness absorbs their energy; they are capable of any crazy deed.

John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie).

Men are singularly unoriginal when they make love or pray. Women and the Deity have been perpetually hearing the same thing from the beginning of space.

Author "The Story of Eden."

When a man has never been in love before, there is only one thing more exquisite than the torment—it is the joy.

Francis Charles.

A man may love a woman who has sinned, but few men love women who sin for their sake, even though that sin be of their own compassing.

Maxwell Gray.

Some women in marrying demand all and give all: with good men, they are the happy; with base men, they are the broken-hearted. Some demand everything and give little: with weak men, they are tyrants; with strong men, they are the divorced. Some demand little and give all: with congenial souls, they are already in heaven; with uncongenial, they are soon in their graves. Some give little and demand little: they are the heartless, and they bring neither the joy of life nor the peace of death.

James Lane Allen.

Let still the woman take
An elder than herself; so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart.

She that with poetry is won

Is but a desk to write upon,

Shakespeare.

And what men say of her they mean
No more than on the thing they lean.

Samuel Butler.