619 The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes, falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground. Lamartine. 620 Deference and intimacy live far apart. — Molière. 621 Men bestow compliments only on women who do not deserve them. - Mme. Bachi. 622 O love! thy essence is thy purity. Breathe one unhallowed breath upon thy flame and it is gone forever, and leaves but a sullied vase, its pure light lost in shame. - 623 A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole dress by a well-fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer. gives a spirit to a whole sentence by a single expression. -Gay. 624 In the matter of dress one should always keep below their ability. Montesquieu. 625 A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. -Bulwer-Lytton. 626 Nature meant to make woman its masterpiece. — Lessing. 627 Marriage is the nursery of heaven. Jeremy Taylor. 628 To be a man in a true sense is, in the first place, and above all things, to have a wife. - Michelet. 629 This spectre of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in Parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain as the other spectre whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke, the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation. - Frances Power Cobbe. 630 Oh, the misery of love! Oh, the delight of love! – Ninon de Lenclos. 631 It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion; there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting. Longfellow. - 632 Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light. — Lord Lyttelton. 633 No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed. — Johnson. 634 O woman, lovely woman! Nature made thee to temper man; we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair to look like you; there is in you all that we believe of heaven, amazing brightness, purity and truth, eternal joy and everlasting love. - Otway. 635 Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. - Balzac. 636 Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all thoughts of matrimony.-Abba Goold Woolson. 637 We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts Dress drains our cellar dry and keeps our larder lean. Cowper. cease. 638 Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born, the morning stars their ancient music make. 639 Lowell. In Athens the ladies were not gaudily but simply arrayed, and we doubt whether any ladies ever excited more admiration. So also the noble old Roman matrons, whose superb forms were gazed on delightedly by men. worthy of them, were always very plainly dressed. George D. Prentice. 640 A woman repents sincerely of her fault only after being cured of her infatuation for the one who induced her to commit it. - Laténa. 641 Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.. - Bovée. 642 O Sentiment! beauty is but the outward and visible sign of thee, and not always there where thou art most. Thou canst supply her place when she is gone. Thou canst remain, and still make an eye sweet to look into, a bosom beautiful to rest the heart on. - Leigh Hunt. 643 A house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought. Emerson. 644 I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. Lacretelle. He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. — Steele. 646 Scorn at first makes after-love the more. Shakespeare. 647 With women worth the being won, the softest lover ever best succeeds. · Aaron Hill. 648 Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts, they read another's better than they can their own. — Richter. 649 Women are engaged to men by the favors they grant them; men are disengaged by the same favors. — Bruy ère. 650 The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interests of human life. Channing. 651 If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from wits. Alphonse Karr. 652 Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God. speare. 653 O fairest of creation, last and best! — Milton. 654 Shake If young men could associate with virtuous and lovely women, under suitable sanction, in their college life, they would not, in general, go out of it in search of the vicious and unlovely. An age and a religious faith which discards the cloister should discard a cloisteral fashion, wherever it exists. Caroline H. Dall. 655 Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. - Beecher. 656 The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. - Plato. 657 It is the most momentous question a woman is ever called upon to decide, whether the faults of the man she loves are beyond remedy and will drag her down, or whether she is competent to be his earthly redeemer and lift him to her own level. - Holmes. 658 First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and thou wilt easily govern thy wife. - Fuller. 659 The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does beauty appear. Virtue is the greatest ornament, and good sense the best equipage.-Lord Halifax. |