533

No language is so eloquent as manners; compliment a woman with deference, and you will win her. Deluzy.

534

- Mme.

Mothers, behold those who once rested beneath your heart, and have now no longer a place in it, stretch their little arms towards her who is nearest related to them, and beg again for nourishment [education]. As in many ancient nations no request was denied to a woman holding a child in her arms, so now do children, lying in your arms, or in their nurses', offer up petitions for themselves. Richter.

535

The soul of woman lives in love. - Mrs. Sigourney.

536

Those who love with purity consider not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. Thomas à Kempis.

537

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is his meanest. - Beecher.

538

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. — Antoine Bret.

539

When women sue, they sue to be denied. Young.

540

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The link that binds men to capitals belongs to the golden chain of civilization, the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. - Bulwer-Lytton.

541

If women are by nature inferior to men, their virtues must be the same in quality, if not in degree, or virtue is a relative idea; consequently their conduct should be founded on the same principles, and have the same aim. - Mary Wollstonecraft.

542

Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest. Sterne.

543

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. The qualities of the sexes correspond. The man's courage is loved by the woman, whose fortitude again is coveted by the man. His vigorous intellect is answered by her infallible tact. Can it be true that there is no sex in souls? I doubt it. I doubt it exceedingly. Coleridge.

544

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Colton.

545

There is a quality in which no woman in the world can compete with her [the French woman]: it is the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. - Shenstone.

546

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure: the former corrodes the heart; the foot-prints of the latter are scarcely discernible. — Montaigne.

547

Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage that it needs a very long summer to ripen in, and then a long winter to mellow and season it. Theodore Parker.

548

Ripening love is the stillest; the shady flowers in this spring, as in the other, shun sunlight. - Richter.

549

The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. Goldsmith.

550

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.- Benjamin West.

551

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind. - Shakespeare.

552

Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss.- Pollok.

553

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide: in part she is to blame that has been tried; "he comes too near who comes to be denied." Mary Wortley Montagu.

554

The honor of women is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be. - Adrian Dupuy.

555

As love increases, prudence diminishes. Rochefou cauld.

556

Rarity gives a charm; thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress: a door ever open attracts no young suitor.

Martial.

557

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon.

558

Grace was in her step, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. -Milton.

559

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion; and, I believe, what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed. Thackeray.

560

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Addison.

Pleasure is to woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. - Colton.

563

Women, like roses, should wear only their own colors, and emit no borrowed perfumes. · Rabbi Ben Azai.

564

Queen Elizabeth, in her hard, wise way, writing to a mother who has lost her son, tells her that she will be comforted in time; and why should she not do for herself what the mere lapse of time will do for her? Bentley.

565

Women evince their courage by placid endurance, men by heedless exposure. Thiers.

566

There are many more clever women in the world than men think for; our habit is to despise them; we believe they do not think because they do not contradict us, and are weak because they do not struggle and rise up against us. A man only begins to know women as he grows old; and, for my part, my opinion of their cleverness rises every day. · - Thackeray.

567

Gather the rose of love while yet is time.

568

Spenser.

The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs : in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love, in the third she regrets it. St. Prosper.

569

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Emerson.

570

It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage. — Dacier.

571

By her we first were taught the wheedling art.

572

He who admits Ambition to the companionship of Love admits a giant that outstrides the gentler footsteps of its comrade. Bulwer-Lytton.

573

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?

Feltham.