It is only on the rarest occasions that a woman's life is balanced between love and fame and the two gifts are seldom bestowed together. If she accepts love she is often compelled to forego fame, because she merges herself too closely into the existence of another. If, on the other hand, she chooses fame, men are generally afraid or jealous of her, and leave her to herself.

Marie Corelli.

Whenever a woman has been exalted above the rest of her sex by the talents of a lover and consigned to enduring fame and perpetuity of praise, the passion was real and was merited; no deep or lasting interest was ever founded in fancy. Mrs. Jameson.

Many a man has lost being a great man by splitting into two middling ones. Julius and Augustus Hare.

Nature has her hour of revenge on every one who has sacrificed humanity to ambition, whether he wears the crown of the tyrant or the tiara of the saint. There is a greater man than the great man-the man who is too great to be great.

Hall Caine.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Wendell Phillips.

When first a man his greatness tells,
The world with doubt receives him;

But if he tells it loud enough

The world at last believes him.

Selected.

Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ten measures of garrulity, says the Talmud, were sent down upon earth; but the women took nine. I have known in my life eight terrific talkers, and five of them were of the masculine gender. But, supposing that the Rabbis were right in allotting to the women a manifold proportion of talkativeness, I confess that I have inherited my mother's share.

Robert Southey.

A woman's tongue is a deadly weapon, and the most difficult thing in the world to keep in order, and things slip off it with a facility nothing short of appalling at the very moment when it ought to be most quiet.

Author "Elizabeth and Her German Garden"
(Countess Arnheim).

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

George Eliot.

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe”— ah! that accounts for the tongue in it.

Selected.

Dean Swift held the doctrine that there were three places where a man should be allowed to speak without contradiction, viz.: The bench, the pulpit, and the gallows.

The very reason why men's talk, as a general thing, is nobler than wimmen's, is because they have nobler things to talk about.

"Samantha Allen."

There are men who talk in their sleep for sheer waste of activity.... A better thing, in an ecclesiastic, at any rate, than to sleep in his talk.

Maarten Maartens.

The man who admires silent women loses his heart to a chatterbox and spends the rest of his mortal life in teaching her to hold her tongue.

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler.

There are a kind of men so loose of soul
That in their sleep will mutter their affairs.

Shakespeare.

"Oh, why can't a man tell you the story of what happened as a woman would, so you feel as if you'd been there?"

Maud Wilder Goodwin.

In the highest and most intellectual circles there is also the magnetic charm of the American woman, the latest and most bewitching development of the Eternal Feminine. The easy, tranquil good breeding of the English great lady; the finished, vivacious grace of the French hostess; the stately simplicity of the German noble dame still please us. But there is something infinitely more piquant in the careless, fearless sayings and doings of a Daughter of the West, with her advanced reading, her worship of the heroic, her utter lack of reverence for rank, authority, and convention, her alternate suggestion of the bluestocking and the ingenue.

J. Henniker Heaton, M. P.

The ideal German girl thinks that she will marry only the man who will make her happy; the ideal American girl thinks that she can marry only the man without whom she will be unhappy.

Selected.

The American woman prides herself on her coldness of temperament, and the French woman on her susceptibility. When the latter is in love her one ambition and delight is to give happiness, while the American woman expects to be made happy herself.

Conlevain.