152 The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red. Holmes. 153 America, the country in which the fairest woman, provided she be a modest one, can walk abroad by day or night, unmolested and unsuspected; the country in which women have acquired the courage to think for themselves, and to stand by each other. Julia Ward Howe. 154 Too light winning makes the prize light.-Shakespeare. 155 Some women have more sense than their male relatives; and, as nothing preponderates where there is a constant struggle for an equilibrium without it has naturally more gravity, some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern. Mary Wollstonecraft. 156 If a man fancies that he loves his mistress for her own sake, he is very much mistaken. - Rochefoucauld. 157 Parley and surrender signify the same thing when virtue is concerned. — Mme. de Maintenon. 158 A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. Hosea Ballou. 159 The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. - Joubert. 160 Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands, and is the only sure defense of happiness. Jane Porter. 161 Men make laws; women make manners. 162 - De Ségur. A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. · Mrs. L. M. Child. 163 God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool.-Victor Hugo. 164 I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies, before it can catch her last words!- Congreve. 165 Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.-Milton. 166 Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. -Beaconsfield. 167 But one thing on earth is better than the wife, is the mother. Leopold Schefer. 168 Love is a necessity in marriage; without it, those who enter into matrimony would be comparable to a sot, who drinks only to intoxicate himself. — Plutarch. 169 Women, like princes, find few real friends. Lord Lyttleton. 170 Men at most differ as heaven and earth; but women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. 171 Tennyson. Self-love is a cistern, true love is a spring. Bartol. 172 Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fade that very hour.-Shakespeare. 173 Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men. - Lamartine. 174 Women of forty always fancy they have found the fountain of youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. - Arsène Houssaye. 175 There is a vein of inconsistency in every woman's heart, within whose portals love hath entered.-Mme. Deluzy 176 What is specially true of love is that it is a state of extreme impressionability: the lover has more senses and finer senses than others; his eye and ear are telegraphs; he reads omens on the flower, and cloud, and face, and form, and gesture, and he reads them aright. - Emerson. 177 Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel. George Chapman. 178 Women of airy temper, as they seldom think before they act, so they rarely give us any light by which to understand their motives. But you have little reason to believe that a woman who has had an indifference for you in your prosperity will fall in love with your ill fortune. Besides, great fortunes either expect another great fortune, or a fool. — Congreve. 179 There is scarcely a woman who does not think herself a minor St. Peter, with the keys of heaven and hell at her girdle; and the more conscientious she is, the narrower the door she unlocks, and the smaller the number of those that are allowed to enter.-E. Lynn Lynton. There is strength deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little, till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?- Mrs. Hemans. 181 There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. Washington Ir ving. 182 In love, one who ceases to be rich begins to be poor. -Chamfort. 183 Gentleness, cheerfulness, and urbanity are the Three Graces of manners. Marguerite de Valois. 184 Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always a sublime thing. - Dumas père. 185 The only reason why women ever assume what is more appropriate to men is because they prevent them from finding out what is fit for themselves. Were they free, were they wise, fully to develop the strength and beauty of women, they would never wish to be men, or menlike. The well-instructed moon flies not from her orbit to seize on the glories of her partner. — Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 186 A woman who writes commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. - Alphonse Karr. 187 If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace, they sometimes suck out our lives like vampires. Jameson. Mrs. 188 An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. - Burke. A mother's first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others! - Mrs. Sigourney. 191 It is curious to see how a self-willed, haughty girl, who sets her father and mother and all at defiance, and cannot be managed by anybody, at once finds her master in a baby. Her sister's child will strike the rock and set all her affections flowing. — Charles Buxton. 192 The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird, but only the hen can line it with moss and down. The more womanly a woman is, the more she is sure to throw her personality over her home, and transform it from a mere eating and sleeping place, or an upholster's show-room, into a sort of outermost garment of her soul. — Frances Power Cobbe. 193 The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. -N. P. Willis. 194 Man and woman were made for and not like one another. One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind, - and that is as much in our hands as theirs, the right of having something to do. - Miss Mulock. |