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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM
Flashes of Wit, Wisdom, and Satire
from the World's Literature
COMPILED BY
FREDERICK W. MORTON

CHICAGO
A. C. MCCLURG AND COMPANY
1895


COPYRIGHT
BY A. C. McClURG AND Co.
A.D. 1894
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M88


INTRODUCTORY.
LOR centuries the mute stone face of
T the Sphinx - the accepted symbol of
the unknown, the mysterious — has looked
out over the wilderness; and generations
have puzzled their brains over her riddle.
But conjecture has been unavailing; the
secret of the strange creation of Egyptian
fancy is undetermined.
Woman is the enigma of the ages, -- the
world's sphinx. Men always have been, are,
and ever will be guessers of her secret; but
after centuries of thought, all one finds is
a mass of contradictory statements, which
one may liken to the sands that have been
worn from the dumb sentinel of the desert.
Woman is to-day unknown, a creature for
surmise and speculation, — what Amiel has
been pleased to call the “ monster incom-
prehensible."


INTRODUCTORY.
With all their wooing and worshipping,
men have looked at their divinity but to
differ in opinion. Lessing thought God
meant to make woman his masterpiece,
and Milton deemed her a fair defect of
nature; Shakespeare calls her another name
for frailty, and Holmes thinks her the Mes-
siah of a new faith. To one she has seemed
divine, and to another satanic. Where shall
we draw the line between dangerous ex-
tremes? Who shall draw it? The fabled
mariner who sought the open channel be-
tween Scylla and Charybdis had an easy
task compared with that of the sex-casuist
of to-day.
Literature is full of opinions, wise or other-
wise, on woman's nature and character; but
thinkers have been prone, as the following
pages show, to sin on the side of panegyric
or of wilful libel. Wherein lie woman's
power and her weakness? Do her graces
and charms make her a ministering angel or
an instrument of evil? Has she the purity,
the gentleness, the self-sacrificing spirit, that
make her divine, or is she the incarnation
of waywardness and wickedness, spite, fickle-
ness, folly? One has but to search the


INTRODUCTORY.'
records of thought, and he will find opinions
to suit any preconceived notion he may
entertain.
This little book advances no theories. It
simply furnishes the raw material for theo-
rizing by supplying some of the opinions or
guesses of men about women and of women
about themselves. The reader will find vari-
ety, wit, brilliancy, humor, wise aphorisms,
and what he will doubtless deem senseless, if
not profane, criticisms. Many times and
climes are represented, and many types of
thought and fancy expressed. The aim has
been to gather together in convenient form
the best things said in praise or condem-
nation of women; and the sharp contrasts
afforded will probably be found not less
entertaining and instructive than the views
advanced, and the bright, epigrammatic
form in which they are cast.
Little liberty has been taken with the text
of the authors quoted. In a very few -
perhaps not more than half a dozen — of
the short passages given, the word woman,
or women, has been substituted for the
personal pronoun she or they, to avoid the
necessity of transcribing half a page of con-


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INTRODUCTORY.
text that would be out of keeping with the
scope and purpose of the book. The trans-
lations are as literal as possible. In some
cases quotations have been marked anony-
mous, because they have been culled from
the great mass of what may be termed float-
ing literature, and their authorship has been
difficult to trace. A more careful search
might have revealed the source of some of
these passages, but this would scarcely have
added to their worth. Care has been taken
to make the indexes full and comprehensive,
for convenience of reference. Much that is
racy will be found in the pages following,
but nothing, it is thought, that will be con-
sidered objectionable.
That women have been carefully inspected
through both ends of the telescope will readily
be seen. The reader may claim allegiance
to those who belittle or those who glorify, as
he pleases. This much, however, is certain :
crown or crucify his divinity as he may,
worship her he must.
F. W. M.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
Two women plac'd together makes cold
weather.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
A WOMAN's low, soft sympathy
Comes like an angel's voice to teach us how
to die.
EDWIN ARNOLD.
I HAVE seen many instances of women
running to waste and self-neglect, and dis-
appearing gradually from the earth, almost
· as if they had been exhaled to heaven.
WASHINGTON IRVING.
To a woman, the romances she makes are
more amusing than those she reads.
THÉOPHILE GAUTIER.
In spite of all the virtue we can boast,
The woman that deliberates is lost.
JOSEPH ADDISON.
WOMEN give themselves to God when the
devil wants nothing more to do with them.
SOPHIE ARNOULD.
SENSUALISM intrudes into the education of
young women, and withers the hope and
affection of human nature.
Ralph WALDO EMERSON.
All the reasoning of man is not worth
one sentiment of woman.
FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE.


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WHEN an old crone frolics, she flirts with
death.
PUBLIUS SYRUS.
THERE never was in any age such a won-
der to be found as a dumb woman.
T. Maccius PLAUTUS.
Wives are young men's mistresses, com-
panions for middle age, and old men's
nurses.
FRANCIS BACON.
TENDERNESS has no deeper source than the
heart of a woman, devotion no purer shrine,
sacrifice no more saint-like abnegation.
GERMAIN FRANÇOIS POULLAIN DE SAINT-FOIX.
It is not for good women that men have
fought battles, given their lives, and staked
their souls.
Mrs. W. K. CLIFFORD.
WOMAN's sympathies give a tone, like the
harp of Æolus, to the slightest breath.
DONALD G. MITCHELL.
Tho' Wisdom oft has sought me,
I scorn'd the lore she brought me;
My only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.
THOMAS MOORE


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Most women caress sin before embracing
penitence.
JEAN GASPARD DUBOIS-FONTANELLE.
HEAVEN has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
WILLIAM CONGREVE.
WHEN Eve ate the apple, she knew she was
naked. I have often thought, as I looked at
her dancing daughters, that another bite would
be of service to them. FREDERICK SHELDON.
WOMAN is a creature between man and
the angels.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
EDUCATION raises many poor women to a
stage of refinement that makes them suitable
companions for men of a higher rank, and
not suitable for those of their own.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.
ELEGANCE of appearance, ornaments, and
dress, — these are women's badges of dis-
tinction; in these they delight and glory.
Titus Livius.
MEN who paint sylphs, fall in love with
some bonne et brave femme, heavy-heeled
and freckled.
GEORGE ELIOT.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMAN — the gods be thanked ! — is not
even collaterally related to that sentimental
abstraction called an angel.
JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE.
God bless all good women! To their
soft hands and pitying hearts we must all
come at last. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
NEITHER education nor reason gives
women much security against the influence
of example.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
The hell for women who are only handsome
is old age. CHARLES DE SAINT-EVREMOND.
Men are women's playthings; women are
the devil's.
Victor Hugo.
A WOMAN, if she is bent on ill, never goes
begging to the gardener for material; she
has a garden at home.
T. Maccius PLAUTUS.
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit
like that begun in the garden; and our
understandings are wedded to an Eve as
fatal as the mother of their miseries.
JOSEPH GLANVILI.


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AMONG all animals, from man to the dog,
the heart of a mother is always a sublime
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, père.
thing.
THERE are no ugly women; there are
only women who do not know how to look
pretty.
ANTOINE PIERRE BERRYER.
As for the women, though we scorn and
flout 'em,
We may live with, but cannot live with-
out 'em.
JOHN DRYDEN.
DRYDEN.
A WOMAN, impudent and mannish grown,
Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
In time of action. William SHAKESPEARE.
The souls of women are so small,
That some believe they've none at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER.
WOMEN call repentance the sweet remem-
brance of their faults, and the bitter regret
of their inability to recommence them.
MARQUIS DE BEAUMANOIR.
A WOMAN's friendship is, as a rule, the
legacy of love or the alms of indifference.
ANONYMOUS.


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Nor shall the poor beauty which the
mother has retained, by dint of being no
mother, be lovely as the ruin. Leigh HUNT.
It is rare that, after having given the key
of her heart, a woman does not change the
lock the day after.
CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE.
WOMEN complain of the lack of virtue in
men, and do not esteem those who are too
strictly virtuous. PIERRE JACQUES BLONDEL.
A WOMAN'S counsel brought us first to
woe.
John DRYDEN.
Love is woman's teacher, developer, guar-
dian. It sheds light upon her past as well as
her future. Seeing what she has escaped, she
learns what to shun.
JUNIUS Henri BROWNE.
THE YOUNG GIRL'S HEART.
You will learn later in life that the heart
of a modest, gentle girl is a very hard matter
for even a brother to probe; it is at once
the most tender and the most unapproach-
able of all fastnesses. It admits feeling by
armies, with great trains of artillery, but not a


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single scout. It is as calm and pure as polar
snows; but deep underneath, where no foot-
steps have gone, and where no eye can reach
but one, lies the warm and the throbbing
earth. Make what you will of the slight,
quivering blushes and of the half-broken
expressions, — more you cannot get. The
love that a delicate-minded girl will tell is a
short-sighted and outside love; but the love
that she cherishes without voice or token is
a love that will mould her secret sympathies
and her deepest, fondest yearnings, either to
a quiet world of joy or to a world of placid
sufferance. The true voice of her love she
will keep back long and late, fearful ever of
her most prized jewel, – fearful to strange
sensitiveness: she will show kindness, but
the opening of the real floodgates of the
heart and the utterance of those impassioned
yearnings which belong to its nature come
far later. That deep, thrilling voice, bear-
ing all the perfume of the womanly soul in
its flow, rarely finds utterance; and if vainly,
- if called out by tempting devices, and by
a trust that is abused, — desolate indeed is
the maiden heart, widowed of its chastest
thought. The soul shrinks affrighted within


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itself. Like a tired bird lost at sea, flutter-
ing around what seem friendly boughs, it
stoops at length, and finding only cold, slip-
pery spars, with no bloom and no foliage,
its last hope gone, it sinks to a wild ocean
grave.
DONALD G. MITCHELL.


II.
To love, to marry, to rear a family, is by
no means an entire statement of the obliga-
tions and privileges of women, because no
woman always has lover, husband, or chil-
dren; many fail to have all of them in suc-
cession, and a few never have either of them.
WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
WOMEN are intellectually more desultory
and volatile than men; they are more occu-
pied with particular instances than with gen-
eral principles; they judge rather by intuitive
perceptions than by deliberate reasoning or
past experience.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.
No woman is too silly not to have a genius
for spite.
ANONYMOUS.
THERE is no compensation for the woman
who feels that the chief relation of her life
has been a mistake. She has lost her crown.
GEORGE Eliot.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
THERE are plenty of women who believe
women to be incapable of anything but to
cook, incapable of interest in affairs.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
GOSSIPING like crazy old women, chatter-
ing with toothless gums and silly brains about
the dreams and joys of their youth, yet unable
to recall one single thought or feeling with
that vigor which once gave it life and truth.
Max MÜLLER.
A WOMAN is happy, and attains all that she
desires, when she captivates a man; hence
the great object of her life is to master the
art of captivating men.
Count Lyof N. Tolstoi.
THE secret of youthful looks in an aged
face is easy shoes, easy corsets, and an easy
conscience.
ANONYMOUS.
Who does not know the bent of woman's
fancy?
EDMUND SPENSER.
The girl who wakes the poet's sigh is a
very different creature from the girl who
makes his soup. FREDERICK SHELDON.
WOMEN know a point more than the devil.
ITALIAN PROVERB.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WHEN women cannot be revenged, they
do as children do, - they cry.
JEROME CARDAN.
FRIENDSHIP between two women is always
a plot against each other.
ALPHONSE KARR.
her.
DIVERT your mistress, rather than sigh for
Sir RICHARD STEELE.
AND this is woman's fate :
All her affections are called into life
By winning flatteries, and then thrown back
Upon themselves to perish. L. E. LANDON.
The ever-womanly draws us above.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE.
I LOVE men, not because they are men,
but because they are not women.
QUEEN CHRISTINA.
Flow, wine ! smile, women ! and the uni-
verse is consoled. PIERRE JEAN BÉRANGER.
OUR good wife sets up a sail according to
the keel of her husband's estate ; and if of
high parentage, she doth not so remember
what she was by birth that she forgets what
she is by match.
THOMAS FULLER.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
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WOMEN, born to be controlled,
Stoop to the forward and the bold.
EDMUND WALLER.
DISCRETION is more necessary to women
than eloquence, because they have less
trouble to speak well than to speak little.
FATHER Du Bosc.
THERE is no gown or garment that worse
becomes a woman than when she will be
wise.
MARTIN LUTHER.
WOMEN live only in the emotion that love
gives.
ARSÈNE HOUSSAYE.
ON great occasions it is almost always
women who have given the strongest proofs
of virtue and devotion. Count MONTHOLON.
THERE is in every true woman's heart a
spark of heavenly fire, which beams and
blazes in the dark hours of adversity.
WASHINGTON IRVING.
A WOMAN is never displeased if we please
several other women, provided she is pre-
ferred. It is so many more triumphs for
her.
I NINON DE LENCLOS.
THERE is a woman at the beginning of
all great things. ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.


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THERE remains in the faces of women who
are naturally serene and peaceful, and of
those rendered so by religion, an after-
spring, and later, an after-summer, — the
reflex of their most beautiful bloom.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
FRAILTY ! thy name is woman.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
The tears of a young widow lose their
bitterness when wiped by the hands of love.
ANONYMOUS.
SHE could not reconcile the anxieties of
spiritual life, involving eternal consequences,
with a keen interest in gimp and artificial
protrusions of drapery. GEORGE Eliot.
VENUS herself, if she were bald, would not
be Venus.
APULEIUS.
WOMEN often deceive to conceal what
they feel; men, to simulate what they do
not feel, — love. ERNEST WILFRID LEGOUVÉ.
WOMEN are the happiest beings of the
creation ; in compensation for our services
they reward us with a happiness of which
they retain more than half.
BERNARD DE VARENNES.


IVOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
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hieroglyphics of the great mystery. There
are women's faces, some real, some ideal,
which contain something in them that be-
comes a positive element in our creed, so
direct and palpable a revelation is it of the
infinite purity and love. I remember two
faces of women with wings, such as they
call angels, of Fra Angelico, — and I just
now came across a print of Raphael's Santa
Apollina, with something of the same qual-
ity, — which I was sure had their prototypes
in the world above ours. No wonder the
Catholics pay their vows to the Queen of
Heaven! The unpoetical side of Protestant-
ism is, that it has no women to be worshipped.
But mind you, it is not every beautiful face
that hints the Great Secret to us, nor is it
only in beautiful faces that we find traces of
it. Sometimes it looks out from a sweet
sad eye, the only beauty of a plain counte-
nance; sometimes there is so much meaning
in the lips of a woman, not otherwise fasci-
nating, that we know they have a message
for us, and wait almost with awe to hear their
accents. But this young girl has at once the
beauty of feature and the outspoken mystery
of expression. Can she tell me anything?


III.
As soon as women are ours, we are no
longer theirs. MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE.
A WOMAN laughs when she can, and weeps
when she will.
PROVERB.
WOMAN may complain to God, as subjects
do of tyrant princes; but otherwise she hath
no appeal in the causes of unkindness.
JEREMY TAYLOR.
A BACHELOR seeks a wife to avoid solitude ;
a married man seeks society to avoid a tête-
à-tête.
BERNARD DE VARENNES.
Nay, certainly, I know the ways of women;
they won't when thou wilt, and when thou
won't they are passionately fond.
P. TERENTIUS AFER.
HONOR to women! To them it is given
To garden the earth with the roses of heaven.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER.
SILENCE and blushing are the eloquence
of women.
CHINESE PROVERB.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
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life.
We need the friendship of a man in great
trials, of a woman in the affairs of every day
ANTOINE LÉONARD THOMAS.
THERE never were so many morally baf-
fed, uneasy, and complaining women on the
earth as now, because never before did the
capacities of intelligence and affection so
greatly exceed their gratification.
WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
WOMEN never reason; or, if they do, they
either draw correct inferences from wrong
premises or wrong inferences from correct
premises; and they always poke the fire
from the top. BISHOP RICHARD WHATELY.
How can one who hates men love a woman
without blushing? JEAN Paul RICHTER.
In the highest society, as well as in the
lowest, woman is merely an instrument of
pleasure.
Count Lyor N. Tolstoi.
THOSE females who cry out loudest against
the flightiness of their sisters, and rebuke
their undue encouragement of this man or
that, would do as much themselves if they
had the chance.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.


W'ONAN IN EPIGRAM.
He that hath wife and children hath given
hostages to fortune ; for they are impedi-
ments to great enterprises, either of virtue
or mischief.
Francis Bacon.
A WOMAN would be in despair if Na-
ture had formed her as fashion makes her
appear.
MLLE. DE LESPINASSE.
THE resistance of a woman is not always
a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of
her experience.
NINON DE LENCLOS.
What a wilful, wayward thing is woman !
Even in their best pursuits so loose of soul
that every breath of passion shakes their
frame.
Philip Francis.
The love of woman is universally for one
man. Even though degraded, half-unsexed,
outcast, abandoned to despair, she inflex-
ibly seeks her individual own.
Junius HENRI BROWNE.
IMPERIOUS Venus is less potent than caress-
ing Venus.
ANONYMOUS.
THE clown knows very well that the women
are not in love with him, but with Hamlet,
the fellow in the black cloak and plumed
hat.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


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.
Do you not know I am a woman? when I
think, I must speak.
William SHAKESPEARE.
WOMEN, asses, and nuts require strong
hands.
ITALIAN PROVERB.
WOMAN sends forth her sympathies on
adventure. She embarks her whole soul in
the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked,
her case is hopeless. WASHINGTON IRVING.
GOD! she is like a milk-white lamb, that bleats
For man's protection.
JOHN KEATS.
A WOMAN is sometimes fugitive, irrational,
indeterminable, illogical, and contradictory.
A great deal of forbearance ought to be
shown her.
HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL.
WHAT a strange illusion it is to suppose
that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman
uiters absurdities; we listen, and we hear
not the absurdities, but wise thoughts.
Count LYOF N. Tolstoï.
WOMAN made for man, — beautiful,
touching truth, suited to an age of female
degradation ! William ELLERY CHANNING.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
You will find a tulip of a woman to be in
fashion when a little humble violet or daisy
of creation is passed over without remark.
William MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
JUST so much respect as a woman derogates
from her own sex, in whatever condition
placed, - her handmaid or dependant, —
she deserves to have diminished from her-
self on that score.
CHARLES LAMB.
HAVE women, conscious of inferior strength,
woven this notion of mystery about themselves
as a defence, or have men simply idealized
them for fictitious purposes?
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
FADED beauties have this in common with
time-stained abbeys and other architectural
ruins, -- they show to the best advantage in
moonlight effects.
FREDERICK W. MORTON.
WIVES AND HUSBANDS.
SELFISH husbands have this advantage in
maintaining with easy-minded wives a rigid
and inflexible behavior ; namely, that if they
do by any chance grant a little favor, the
ladies receive it with such transports of grati-


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tude as they would never think of showing to
a lord and master who was accustomed to give
them everything they asked for. . . . Look
through the world, respectable reader, and
among your honorable acquaintances, and
say if this sort of faith in women is not very
frequent. They will believe in their hus-
bands, whatever the latter do. Let John be
dull, ugly, vulgar, and a humbug, his Mary
Ann never finds it out; let him tell his sto-
ries ever so many times, there is she always
ready with her kind smile ; let him be stingy,
she says he is prudent; let him quarrel with
his best friend, she says he is always in the
right; let him be prodigal, she says he is
generous, and that his health requires enjoy-
ment; let him be idle, he must have relaxa-
tion; and she will pinch herself and her
household, that he may have a guinea for
his club. Yes; and every morning, as she
wakes and looks into the face snoring on
the pillow by her side, - every morning, I
say, she blesses that dull, ugly countenance,
and the dull, ugly soul reposing there, and
thinks both are something divine. I want
to know how it is that women do not find
out their husbands to be humbugs. Nature


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
Nay, women are frail too.
Ay, as the glasses where they view them-
selves ;
Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
She is the most virtuous woman whom
Nature has made the most voluptuous, and
reason the coldest.
LA BEAUMELLE.
For one woman who affronts her kind by
wicked passions or remorseless hate, a thou-
sand make amends in age and youth.
CHARLES MACKAY,
To a woman of delicate feeling, the most
persuasive declaration of love is the embar-
rassment of an intellectual man.
Nicolas VALENTIN DE LATÉNA.
A COQUETTE is to a man what a toy is to a
child; as long as it pleases him he keeps it.
ANONYMOUS.
WHEN a woman once begins to be ashamed
of what she ought not to be ashamed of, she
will not be ashamed of what she ought.
Titus LIVIUS.
FRIEND, beware of fair maidens! When
their tenderness begins, our servitude is
near.
Victor Hugo.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
A PRETTY woman's worth some pains to
see.
Robert BROWNING.
Thou art a woman.
And that is saying the best and worst of
thee.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY.
THAT perfect disinterestedness and self-
devotion of which man seems incapable, but
which is sometimes found in women.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
WOMEN distrust men too much in general,
and not enough in particular.
PHILIBERT COMMERSON.
EVEN when fortunate, woman scarcely
breathes it to herself; but when otherwise,
she buries it in the recesses of her bosom,
and there lets it cower and brood among the
ruins of her peace.. WASHINGTON IRVING.
If you wish a coquette to regard you,
cease to regard her.
ANONYMOUS.
There are twenty-four hours in a day, and
not a moment in the twenty-four in which a
woman may not change her mind.
J. DE FINOD.
Most women are better out of their houses
than in them.
TACITUS.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
How many women are born too finely
organized in sense and soul for the highway
they must walk with feet unshod !
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
The world was sad ; the garden was a wild !
And man, the hermit, sigh'd till woman
smiled.
THOMAS CAMPBELL.
WOMEN are rakes by nature and prudes
from necessity.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
WHAT means did the devil find out, or
what instrument did his own subtlety present
him, as fittest and aptest to work his mis-
chief by? — Even the unquiet vanity of the
woman.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
An obscure mist of sighs exhales out of
the solitude of women in the nineteenth
century. William ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
The position that was gradually assigned
to the Virgin as the female ideal in the
belief and the devotion of Christendom,
was a consecration or an expression of the
new value that was attached to the female
virtues.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.


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If a woman's young and pretty, I think
you can see her good looks all the better for
her being plainly dressed. George Eliot.
The first thing men think of, when they
love, is to exhibit their usefulness and ad-
vantages to the object of their affection.
Women make light of these, asking only
love.
Ralph Waldo EMERSON.
A MAN is in general better pleased when
he has a good dinner than when his wife
talks Greek.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
WOMAN delights in the pure and noble;
she brooks the ignoble and gross.
FREDERICK W. MORTON.
Men say more evil of women than they
think; it is the contrary with women toward
men.
S. DUBAY.
A WOMAN'S rank lies in the fulness of her
womanhood ; therein alone she is royal.
GEORGE Eliot.
The deceit of priests and the cunning of
women surpass all else.
GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER.
NOTHING is better than a good wife ; and
nothing is worse than a bad one, who is fond
of gadding about.
HESIOD


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMAN often dies for love, as spotless
maidens have died to live forever in the
Pantheon of sentiment.
JUNIUS HENRI Browne.
LOVE, that is but an episode in the life of
man, is the entire story of the life of woman.
MME. DE STAËL.
WOMEN, priests, and poultry have never
· enough.
PROVERB.
WOMAN is too soft to hate permanently;
even if a hundred men have been a grief to
her, she will still love the hundred and first.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED KINKEL.
VIRTUE with some women is but the pre-
caution of locking doors.
PIERRE EDOUARD LEMONTEY.
Your true flirt has a coarse-grained soul;
well modulated and well tutored, but there
is no fineness in it. Donald G. Mitchell.
A WOMAN needs a stronger head than her
own for counsel ; she should marry.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA.
THERE are Florence Nightingales of the
ball-room, whom nothing can hold back
from their errands of mercy.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
In love, the confidant of a woman's sorrow
often becomes the consoler of it.
ANONYMOUS.
A ROYAL court without women is like a
year without spring, a spring without flowers.
FRANCIS I. OF FRANCE.
A WOMAN full of faith in the one she loves
is but a novelist's fancy.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
THEOLOGIANS deplore Eve's taste and appe-
tite, but philosophers give her a vote of
thanks. If she had n't bitten that apple in
the garden, we should all, save beggars and
tramps, be out of a job.
FREDERICK W. MORTON.
WOMAN'S EMANCIPATION.
I THOUGHT I stood on the border of a
great desert, and the sand blew about every-
where. And I thought I saw two great
figures like beasts of burden of the desert,
and one lay upon the sand with its neck
stretched out, and one stood by it. And I
looked curiously at the one that lay upon the
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back, and the sand was thick about it, so
that it seemed to have piled over it for cen-
turies. ... And I said : “Why does she lie
here motionless, with the sand piled round
her?" And he answered : “Listen ; I will
tell you. Ages and ages long she has lain
here, and the wind has blown over her. The
oldest, oldest, oldest man living has never
seen her move; the oldest, oldest book re-
cords that she lay here then, as she lies here
now, with the sand about her. But listen !
Older than the oldest book, older than the
oldest recorded memory of man, on the
Rock of Language, on the hard-baked clay
of Ancient Customs, now crumbling to de-
cay, are found the marks of her footsteps !
Side by side with his who stands beside her
you may trace them; and you know that she
who now lies there once wandered free over
the rocks with him. ... I take it, ages ago
the Age-of-dominion-of-muscular-force found
her, and when she stooped low to give suck
to her young, and her back was broad, he
put his burden of subjection on to it, and
tied it on with the broad band of Inevitable
Necessity. Then she looked at the earth
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her; and she lay down on the sand with the
burden she could not loosen. Ever since
she has lain here." ... And I heard some-
thing crackling, and I looked, and I saw the
band that bound the burden on to her back
broken asunder, and the burden rolled on to
the ground. And I said, “What is this?"
And he said : “ The Age-of-muscular-force is
dead. The Age-of-nervous-force has killed
him with the knife he holds in his hand;
and silently and invisibly he has crept up to
the woman, and with that knife of Mechan-
ical Invention he has cut the band that
bound the burden to her back. The Inev-
itable Necessity is broken. She might rise
now.” And she threw from her gladly the
mantle of Anciently-received-opinions she
wore, for it was full of holes. And she took
the girdle from her waist that she had treas-
ured so long, and the moths flew out of it in
a cloud. And he said : “ Take the shoes of
Dependence off your feet.” And she stood
there naked, but for the one white garment
that clung close to her.
OLIVE SCHREINER


V.
Has a woman obeyed the impulse of un-
erring nature, society declares war against
her, — pitiless and eternal war. She must be
the tame slave; she must make no reprisals.
Theirs is the right of persecution ; hers the
duty of endurance. Percy Bysshe SHELLEY.
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.
DISGUISE our bondage as we will,
'Tis woman, woman rules us still.
THOMAS Moore.
The perfect loveliness of a woman's coun-
tenance can only consist in that majestic
peace which is founded in the memory of
happy and useful years, full of sweet records.
JOHN RUSKIN.
Trust your dog to the end; a woman --
till the first opportunity.
PROVERB.


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WOMEN and wine, game and deceit, make
the wealth small and the wants great.
PROVERB.
I CONFESS I like the quality ladies better
than the common kind even of literary ones.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
WOMEN sometimes deceive the lover, —
never the friend. Louis SÉBASTIEN MERCIER.
You see in no place of conversation the
perfection of speech so much as in accom-
plished women. Sir RICHARD STEELE.
A FAN is indispensable to a woman who
can no longer blush.
ANONYMOUS
Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in
woman.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
A TIMOROUS woman drops into her grave
before she is done deliberating.
JOSEPH ADDISON.
It is much worse to irritate an old woman
than a dog.
MENANDER.
THERE are women so hard to please that
it seems as if nothing less than an angel will
suit them; hence it comes that they often
meet with devils. MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAN.
WOMAN is a charming creature, who
changes her heart as easily as her gloves.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
WITHOUT the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh, what were man?- A world without a
sun.
THOMAS CAMPBELL.
WOMEN who have lost their faith
Are angels who have lost their wings.
DR. WALTER SMITH.
WOMEN go further in love than most
men, but men go further in friendship than
women.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.
WOMAN's function is a guiding, not a de-
termining one.
JOHN RUSKIN.
At first woman fosters our dearest hopes
with the affection of a mother; then like a
giddy hen she forsakes the nest.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON Goethe.
The most chaste woman may be the most
voluptuous if she loves.
HONORÉ GABRIEL DE RIQUETTE MIRABEAU.
WOMAN's heart is just like a lithographer's
stone, — what is once written upon it cannot
be rubbed out.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
SHE, while Apostles shrank, could danger
brave, —
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.
EATON STANNARD BARRETT.
THE lives of a multitude of women all
around us contain a large element of unsuc-
cessful outward or inward ambitions, — vain
attempts and prayers.
William ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
An ideal type in which meekness, gentle-
ness, patience, humility, faith, and love are
the most prominent features, is not naturally
male, but female.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.
EVEN though the wife be little, bow down
to her in speaking.
TALMUD.
The vainest woman is never thoroughly
conscious of her own beauty till she is loved
by the man who sets her own passion vibrat-
ing in return.
GEORGE Eliot.
'T is a terrible thing that we cannot wish
young ladies well without wishing them to
become old women. SAMUEL JOHNSON.
We men have no right to say it, but the
omnipotence of Eve is in humility.
Ralph WALDO EMERSON.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMAN's power is for rule, not for battle ;
and her intellect is not for invention or
creation, but for sweet ordering arrangement
and decision.
John Ruskin.
WOMAN is a delightful musical instrument,
of which love is the bow and man the artist.
MARIE HENRI BEYLE.
Fit the same intellect to a man, and it is
a bowstring; to a woman, and it is a harp-
string.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
A CLIP of a wife roasts her husband, stout-
hearted though he may be, without a fire,
and hands him over to premature old age.
HESIOD.
THERE are three things that I have always
loved and have never understood, — Paint-
ing, Music, and Woman.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE.
LEARNED women have lost all credit by
their impertinent talkativeness and conceit.
JONATHAN SWIFT.
The coquette compromises her reputation,
and sometimes saves her virtue; the prude,
on the contrary, often sacrifices her honor in
secret, and preserves it in public.
MME. DU BOCAGE.


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57
WOMEN, cats, and birds are the creatures
that waste most time on their toilets.
CHARLES NODIER.
FEMALE goodness seldom keeps its ground
against laughter, flattery, or fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
THERE is no torture that a woman would
not suffer to enhance her beauty.
MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE.
Most women proceed like the flea, — by
leaps and jumps. HONORÉ DE Balzac.
The merest trifles will affect the mind of
a woman.
Titus Livius.
THE most fascinating women are those
that can most enrich the every-day moments
of existence.
Leigh HUNT.
LEARN, above all, how to manage women;
their thousand “ Ahs” and “ Ohs,” so thou-
sand-fold, can be cured from a single point.
Johann WOLFGANG VON GOETHE.
All women are fond of minds that inhabit
fine bodies, and of souls that have fine eyes.
Joseph JOUBERT.
MOTHERS are the only goddesses in whom
the whole world believes.
ANONYMOUS.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
A GIRL of eighteen imagines the feelings
behind the face that has moved her with its
sympathetic youth as easily as primitive
people imagined the humors of the gods in
fair weather: what is she to believe in, if
not in this vision woven from within ?
GEORGE ELIOT.
The heart of a loving woman is a golden
sanctuary, where often there reigns an idol
of clay.
PAULIN LIMAYRAC.
WOMAN'S BEAUTY.
We find beauty itself a very poor thing
unless beautified by sentiment. The reader
may take the confession as he pleases, either
as an instance of abundance of sentiment
on our part, or as an evidence of want of
proper ardor and impartiality ; but we can-
not (and that is the plain truth) think the
most beautiful creature beautiful, or be at all
affected by her, or long to sit next her, or
go to a theatre with her, or listen to a con-
cert with her, or walk in a field or a forest
with her, or call her by her Christian name,
or ask her if she likes poetry, or tie (with
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it as if it had been a toad. It was now
literally hideous; the fat seerned sweltering
and full of poison. The beauty added to
the deformity. You resented the grace ;
you shrank from the look of smoothness as
from a snake. The woman went to the
scaffold with as much indifference as she
distributed her poisons. The character of
her mind was insensibility. The strongest
of excitements was to her what a cup of tea
was to other people. And such is the char-
acter, more or less, of all mere beauty.
LEIGH HUNT.


VI.
Fools that on women trust; for in their
speech is death, hell in their smile.
TORQUATO Tasso.
At the age of sixty to marry a beautiful girl
of sixteen is to imitate those ignorant people
who buy books to be read by their friends.
Antoine RICARD.
WOMEN forgive injuries, but never forget
slights.
T. C. HALIBURTON.
The virtue of women is often the love of
reputation and quiet.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
For nothing lovelier can be found
In woman than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote.
John Milton.
WOMAN is the most precious jewel taken
from Nature's casket for the ornamenta-
tion and happiness of man.
BERNARD GUYARD.
FRANY


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMEN have such a wonderful power of
secreting adjectives that they cannot speak
the truth when they try. FREDERICK SHELDON.
WOMEN divine that they are loved long
before it is told them.
DE CHAMBLAIN DE MARIVAUX.
MEN say of women what pleases them ;
women do with men what pleases them.
Louis PHILIPPE DE SÉGUR.
WOMAN must not belong to herself; she is
bound to alien destinies.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER.
Don't trust your horse in the field, nor
your wife in your home. Russian PROVERB.
WOMAN has been fed upon flattery until it
is not strange she hungers for substantial
diet, whose best sauce is understanding and
appreciation. JUNIUS Henri Browne.
ONE thing only I believe in a woman, —
that she will not come to life again after she
is dead.
ANTIPHANES.
The life of a woman is a long dissimula-
tion. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity,
modesty, — a woman has each of these but
once.
Relif DE LA BRETONNE.


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65
CRUELLY tempted, perplexed and bewil-
dered, when passion is stronger than reason,
women do not think of consequences, but go
blindfolded, headlong to their ruin.
AMELIA E. Barr.
VANITY acts like a woman, — they both
think they lose something when love or
praise is accorded to another. ANONYMOUS.
ONE woman reads another's character
without the tedious trouble of deciphering.
BEN JONSON.
WOMEN are much more like each other
than men; they have, in truth, but two pas-
sions, — vanity and love.
LORD CHESTERFIELD.
A JEST that makes a virtuous woman only
smile, often frightens away a prude.
NICOLAS VALENTIN DE LATÉNA.
If the loving closed heart of a good
woman were to open before a man, how
much controlled tenderness, how many veiled
sacrifices and dumb virtues would he see !
JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
WOMAN is a flower that exhales her per-
fume only in the shade.
HUGUES FÉLICITÉ ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMEN are never stronger than when they
arm themselves with their weakness.
MME. DU DEFFAND.
WOMEN's lives are so private, their dispo-
sitions are so modest, their experiences have
been so little noticed by history, that the
annals of the feminine heart are for the most
part a secret chapter.
William ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
WOMEN are apt to see chiefly the defects
of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN have a perpetual envy of our
vices; they are less vicious than we, not
from choice, but because we restrict them;
they are the slaves of order and fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
It is generally a feminine eye that first
detects the moral deficiencies hidden under
the “ dear deceit” of beauty.
George Eliot.
I DETEST those women who mount the
pulpit and lay their passions bare.
Eugénie de Guérin.
Of all men, Adam was the happiest : he
had no mother-in-law.
PAUL PARFAIT.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMAN'S gravest faults are the natural pro-
duct of a heart too warm and sympathetic to
brook indifference, too pure and trusting to
cope with duplicity. It is not man's tear of
pity but his tear of devotion that should blot
out an evil record. FREDERICK W. Morton.
BELOVED darlings, who cover over and
shadow many malicious purposes with a
counterfeit passion of dissimulate sorrow and
unquietness.
Sir WALTER RALEIGH.
WOMEN were made to give our eyes delight:
A female sloven is an odious sight.
EDWARD YOUNG.
A MOTHER'S tenderness and caresses are
the milk of the heart. EUGENIE DE GUÉRIN.
The education of the present race of
females is not very favorable to domestic
happiness.
HANNAH MORE.
If the world was lost through woman, she
alone can save it. LouIS DE BEAUFORT.
WOMEN AS INCONSTANTS.
WOMAN is not absolute fixedness and
fidelity; but she is such compared with
man. Were she a hundred times less stable


VII.
I THINK Nature and an angry God pro-
duced thee to the world, thou wicked sex,
to be a plague to man. Ludovico Ariosto.
WOMEN enjoy more the pleasure they give
than the pleasure they feel. ROCHEPÈDRE.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ;
She is a woman, therefore may be won.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
WOMAN's tongue is her sword, which she
never lets rust.
MME. NECKER.
WIFE and children are a kind of discipline
of humanity.
Francis Bacon.
FEMININE charity renews every day the
miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with
a few loaves and fishes.
Ernest Wilfrid LEGOUVÉ.
WITH cleverness, thirty years, and a little
beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but
more durable ones.
ANTOINE DUPUY.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMEN who marry, seldom act but once;
their lot is, ere they wed, obedience unto a
father, thenceforth to a husband.
JOHN WESTLAND MARSTON.
THE world is so unjust that a female heart
which has once been touched is thought for-
ever blemished. Sir RICHARD STEELE.
The beauty of a young girl should speak
to the imagination, and not to the senses.
ALPHONSE KARR.
NATURE and custom would, no doubt, agree
in conceding to all males the right of at least
two distinct looks at every comely female
countenance. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
We love handsome women from inclina-
tion, homely women from interest, and vir-
tuous women from reason.
ARSÈNE HOUSSAYE.
THERE is something still more to be
dreaded than a Jesuit, and that is a Jesuitess.
EUGENE Sue.
UNEDUCATED men may escape intellectual
degradation ; uneducated-women cannot.
SYDNEY SMITH.
A WOMAN and her servant, acting in accord,
would outwit a dozen devils. PROVERB.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
O PYGMALION, who can wonder (no artist
surely) that thou didst fall in love with the
work of thine own hands! Leigh Hunt.
The mistakes of a woman result almost
always from her faith in the good and her
confidence in the truth. HONORÉ VE BALZAC.
LET an action be never so trivial in itself,
women always make it appear of the most
importance.
ALEXANDER POPE.
THERE are only two beautiful things in the
world, — women and roses; and only two
sweet things, - women and melons.
FRANÇOIS DE MALHERBE.
O WOMAN, lovely woman, nature form'd thee
To temper man; we had been brutes with-
out thee.
Thomas OTWAY.
BEFORE promising a woman to love only
her, one should have seen them all, or should
see only her.
ANTOINE DUPUY.
WOMEN, so amiable in themselves, are
never so amiable as when they are useful;
and as for beauty, though men may fall in
love with girls at play, there is nothing to
make them stand to their love like seeing
them at work.
WILLIAM COBBETT.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM. 77
A COQUETTE has no heart: she has only
vanity ; it is adorers she seeks, not love.
A. POINCELOT.
A WOMAN who has surrendered her lips
has surrendered everything.
THÉOPHILE VIAUD.
THINK not, when woman's transient breath
is fled,
That all her vanities at once are dead.
ALEXANDER POPE.
A WOMAN repents sincerely of her fault
only after being weaned from her infatuation
for the one who induced her to commit it.
Nicolas VALENTIN DE LATÉNA.
LET the great soul incarnated in some
woman's form, poor and sad and single, in
some Dolly or Joan, go out to service.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
WOMAN, naturally enthusiastic of the good
and beautiful, sanctifies all that she sur-
rounds with her affection.
ALFRED MERCIER.
WOMEN have more understanding in their
own affairs than we have, and women of
spirit are not to be won by mourners.
SIR RICHARD STEELE.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
Marry a virgin, that thou mayst teach her
discreet manners.
HESIOD.
PRETTY women gaze with envy, homely
women with spite, old men with regret,
young men with transport.
JEAN BAPTISTE DE BOYER D'ARGENS.
Hell is paved with women's tongues.
ABBÉ GUYON.
MAN VERSUS WOMAN.
PHYSICALLY, men have the indisputable
superiority in strength, and women in beauty.
Intellectually, a certain inferiority of the
female sex can hardly be denied when we
remember how almost exclusively the fore-
most places in every department of science,
literature, and art have been occupied by
men, how infinitesimally small is the num-
ber of women who have shown in any form
the highest order of genius, how many
of the greatest men have achieved their
greatness in defiance of the most adverse
circumstances, and how completely women
have failed in obtaining the first position,
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79
most propitious. It is as impossible to find
a female Raphael, or a female Handel, as a
female Shakespeare or Newton. . . . Mor-
ally, the general superiority of women over
men is, I think, unquestionable. If we take
the somewhat coarse and inadequate crite-
rion of police statistics, we find that while
the male and female populations are nearly
the same in number, the crimes committed
by men are usually rather more than five
times as numerous as those committed by
women. . . . Self-sacrifice is the most con-
spicuous element of a virtuous and religious
character, and it is certainly far less common
among men than among women, whose whole
lives are usually spent in yielding to the will
and consulting the pleasures of another.
There are two great departments of virtue, —
the impulsive, or that which springs sponta-
neously from the emotions; and the deliber-
ative, or that which is performed in obedience
to the sense of duty, - and in both of these I
imagine women are superior to men. Their
sensibility is greater; they are more chaste,
both in thought and act, more tender to the
erring, more compassionate to the suffering,
more affectionate to all about them.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
81
THERE is no grace that is taught by the
dancing-master, no style adopted into the
etiquette of courts, but was first the whim
and mere action of some brilliant woman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The conversation of women in society
resembles the straw used in packing china;
it is nothing, yet, without it, everything would
be broken.
MME. DE SALM.
MORE joy it gives to woman's breast
To make ten frigid coxcombs vain,
Than one true, manly lover blest !
THOMAS Moore.
The woman who does not choose to love
should cut the matter short at once, by hold-
ing out no hope to her suitor.
MARGUERITE DE Valois.
ONE single honest man may yet be seen;
but wander all the world round to find one
honest woman, he will search in vain.
CHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELAND.
A WOMAN forgives the audacity which her
beauty has prompted us to be guilty of.
ALAIN RENÉ LESAGE
To marry a wife, if we regard the truth, is
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83
The last act in woman's comedy may turn
to tragedy. The smiles of the morning may
set in bitterest tears. All about her oasis of
coquetry lies the blistering sand of desola-
tion.
JUNIUS Henri Browne.
He bears an honorable mind,
And will not use a woman lawlessly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
WOMEN are compounds of plain-sewing
and make-believe, daughters of Sham and
Hem.
FREDERICK SHELDON.
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's
tongue ;
A string which hath no discord.
Barry CORNWALL.
FINESSE has been given to woman to com-
pensate the force of man.
PIERRE DE LACLOS.
WOMEN are demons who make us enter
hell through the door of paradise.
ANONYMOUS.
It is to teach us early how to think and to
excite our infantile imagination, that prudent
nature has given to women so much chit-
chat.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
OH, woman! woman ! thou shouldst have
few sins of thy own to answer for! Thou
art the author of such a book of follies in a
man !
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON.
WOMAN's dignity lies in her being un-
known; her glory in the esteem of her hus-
band; and her pleasure in the welfare of her
family.
JEAN JACQUES Rousseau.
Thou knowest the ways of women; while
they are setting themselves off and tricking
out their persons, it is an age.
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER.
In love, she who gives her portrait prom-
ises the original.
ANTOINE DUPUY.
The man who seems to care little whether
he charms or attracts women is he who
offends and seduces.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE.
To correct the faults of man, we address
the head; to correct those of woman, we
address the heart.
EDME Pierre ChanvoT DE BEAUCHÊNE.
The man flaps about with a bunch of
feathers; the woman goes to work softly
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GLORY can be for a woman but the bril-
liant mourning of happiness.
MME. DE STAËL.
WOMEN have more of what is termed
good sense than men. They cannot reason
wrong, for they do not reason at all.
WILLIAM HAZLITT.
LET her have a dozen admirers, and the
dear coquette will exercise her power upon
them all; and as a lady, when she has a
large wardrobe, and a taste for variety in
dress, will appear every day in a different
costume. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
In anger against a rival all women, even
duchesses, employ invective. Then they
make use of everything as a weapon.
ANONYMOUS.
THE Egyptian people, wisest then of na-
tions, gave to their Spirit of Wisdom the
form of a woman; and into her hand, for a
symbol, the weaver's shuttle. John Ruskin.
The life of a woman can be divided into
three epochs: in the first she dreams of
love, in the second she experiences it, in
the third she regrets it.
ANTOINE JEAN CASSÉ DE SAINT-PROSPER.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
A WOMAN moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Give me women, wine, and snuff,
Until I cry out, “Hold, enough!”
JOHN KEATS.
THE ruses of women multiply with their
years.
PROVERB.
WOMEN wish to be loved, not because
they are pretty or good or well-bred or
graceful or intelligent, but because they are
themselves.
HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL.
SOCIETY depends upon women. The na-
tions who confine them are unsociable.
FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE.
I Am asham'd that women are so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and
obey.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
A BEAUTIFUL woman with the qualities of
a noble man is the most perfect thing in
nature.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.
The mistake of many women is to return
sentiment for gallantry.
VICTOR JOSEPH ÉTIENNE JOUY.


88
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
as regards herself is, that, for the first time
in her life, she is her own protector; many
things that she could not do as a girl, and
dare not do as a wife, are now open to her.
She has “been made a woman of,” and is
a very independent person. After languish-
ing a fitting time in calm retirement and
seclusion, having “ that within that passeth
outward show," she appears to the world
decked in the trappings and the suits
of woe.” We purposely use the word
“ decked," because in its most familiar
sense it implies “ adorned,” at least as
applied to the “craft” we are now con-
voying. We should very much like to be
told, and very much like to see, a more
interesting sight than a young widow when,
after leaving her moorings, in proper “rig
and trim” to prosecute the remainder of
the voyage of life. The black flag is up,
and no doubt she means mischief; but all
is fair and above board. No mystery is
made of the metal she carries, the port she
is bound for. She may take a prize or
make one; but it must be by gallantry if she
is captured. To drop metaphor: a young
widow is, we repeat, an extremely delightful


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
89
and highly privileged creature. Mark her
in society, — we do not care how limited or
how extensive, — and she bears the palm in
the interest that is excited. . . . A girl may
be very agreeable and “ all that,” as people
say when they want to cut description short;
but it is impossible she can hold a candle to
a young widow. She is obliged to be cir-
cumspect in all she says, — to weigh every
word, to cripple her conversation, lest she
should be thought forward ; but worse than all
this, she is so deuced simple and credulous,
that a man with a fine flowing tongue is apt
to mislead her, and place himself in a false
position before he gets through a set of
quadrilles; whereas with the other partner
it is tout au contraire. « Old birds are not
to be caught with chaff;" and old the young-
est widow is, in “the ways of men,” compared
with the bread-and-butter portion of the un-
married world.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.


IX.
WOMAN, in accordance with her unbroken,
clear-seeing nature, loses herself and what
she has of heart and happiness in the object
she loves.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
Society is the book of women.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU.
WOMEN, like princes, find few real friends.
LORD LYTTLETON.
In love affairs, a young shepherdess is a
better partner than an old queen.
J. DE FINOD.
Our ice-eyed brain-women are really ad-
mirable, if we only ask of them just what
they can give, and no more.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
A MARRIAGEABLE girl is a kind of merchan-
dise that can be negotiated at wholesale
only on condition that no one takes a part
at retail.
ALPHONSE KARR.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
91
They say that the best counsel is that of a
woman. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA.
It is only the coward who reproaches as a
dishonor the love a woman has cherished for
him.
MME. DE LAMBERT.
THERE is scarcely a single cause in which
a woman is not engaged in some way foment-
ing the suit. DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS.
Do not take women from the bedside of
those who suffer; it is their post of honor.
Mme. CECILE FÉE.
It is lucky for the poets that their mis-
tresses are not obliged to sit to them. They
would never write a line. LEIGH Hunt.
It is easier for a woman to defend her
virtue against men than her reputation against
women.
ROCHEBRUNE.
As the faculty of writing is chiefly a mas-
culine endowment, the reproach of making
the world miserable has been always thrown
upon the women.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
TWICE is a woman dear, — when she comes
to the house and when she leaves it.
ANONYMOUS.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
The change from the heroic to the saintly
ideal — from the ideal of paganism to the
ideal of Christianity — was a change from a
type which was essentially male to one which
was essentially feminine.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.
We look at the one little woman's face we
love, as we look at the face of our mother
earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own
yearnings.
GEORGE ELIT.
THERE are women who seem cold and
beautiful stones, their hearts icicles, their
tears frozen gems pressed out by injured
pride.
WILLIAM RounseVILLE ALGER.
WOMAN conceals only what she does not
know.
PROVERB.
POSITION, Wren said, is essential to the
perfecting of beauty, — a fine building is lost
in a dark lane; a statue should be in the
air: much more true is it of woman.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
A WOMAN should never accept a lover
without the consent of her heart, nor a hus-
band without the consent of her judgment.
NINON DE LENCLOS.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
THE plainest man who pays attention to
women will sometimes succeed as well as
the handsomest who does not.
CALEB C. Colton.
A WOMAN can be held by no stronger tie
than the knowledge that she is loved.
MME. DE MOTTEVILLE.
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is
that of man.
Joseph Addison.
BETWEEN two beings susceptible to love,
the duration of love depends upon the first
resistance of the woman, or the obstacles
that society puts in their way.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
A WOMAN (of the right kind), reading after
a man, follows him as Ruth followed the
reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often
the finest of the wheat.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
The man who has taken one wife deserves
a crown of patience ; the man who has taken
two deserves two crowns of folly.
PROVERB.
If women were humbler, men would be
honester.
Sir John VANBRUGH.


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95
IF ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
NEITHER walls, nor goods, nor anything is
more difficult to be guarded than woman.
ALEXIS.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely
embittering the life of the person on whom she
depends. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE.
A WOMAN submits to the yoke of opinion,
but a man rebels.
J. DE FINOD.
The only thing that has been taught suc-
cessfully to women is to wear becomingly
the fig-leaf they received from their first
mother.
Denis DIDEROT.
Woman is like the reed that bends to every
breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Bishop RICHARD WHATELY.
WOMEN are happier in the love they in-
spire than in that which they feel; men are
just the contrary.
EDME PIERRE CHANVOT DE BEAUCHÊNE.
To a susceptible youth, like myself, brought
up in the country, women are perfect divini-
ties.
WASHINGTON IRVING.


96
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
How wisely it is constituted that tender and
gentle women shall be our earliest guides,
instilling their own spirit !
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING.
LET woman stand upon her female charac-
ter as upon a foundation. CHARLES LAMB.
THERE is a very general notion that if you
once suffer women to eat of the tree of
knowledge, the rest of the family will very
soon be reduced to the same kind of aerial
and unsatisfactory diet. SYDNEY Smith.
The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and
the careful matron are much more service-
able in life than petticoated philosophers,
blustering heroines, or virago queens.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
A MAN takes counsel with his wife, he
obeys his mother; he obeys her long after
she has ceased to live; and the ideas which
he has received from her become principles
stronger even than his passions.
Aimi Martin.
A HEART which has been domesticated by
matrimony and maternity is as tranquil as a
tame bullfinch. Oliver WENDELL HOLMES.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer,
- a perpetually recurring mortification, - a
drain on your purse, a more intolerable dun
on your pride, – a drawback upon success,
- a rebuke to your rising, – a stain in your
blood, - a blot on your 'scutcheon, — a rent
in your garment, — a death's head at your
banquet, — Agathocles' plot, — a Mordecai
in your gate, a Lazarus at your door, — a
lion in your path, — a frog in your chamber,
- a fly in your ointment, -a mote in your
eye, - a triumph to your enemy, an apol-
ogy to your friends, — the one thing not
needful, — the hail in harvest, — the ounce
of sour in a pound of sweet. ... There is
a worse evil under the sun, and that is - a
female Poor Relation. You may do some-
thing with the other, you may pass him off
tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative
is hopeless. “He is an old humorist,” you
may say, “and affects to go threadbare.
His circumstances are better than folks
would take them to be. You are fond of
having a Character at your table, and truly
he is one.” But in the indications of female
poverty there can be no disguise. No woman
dresses below herself from caprice. The truth


THERE will be so many more women in
heaven than men that any marriage, except
of the Mormon kind, would be impossible.
FRBDERICK SHELDON.
COQUETTE. — A female general who builds
her fame on her advances. Ernest FIELD.
WHEN, like spoiled children, women cry
for the moon, it is because they have heard
that the moon contains a man.
Junius HENRI BROWNE.
WOMEN famed for their valor, their skill in
politics, or their learning, leave the duties of
their own sex in order to invade the privi-
leges of ours.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
WOMAN is fine for her own satisfaction
alone; man only knows man's insensibility
to a new gown.
JANE AUSTEN.
Women in this degenerate age are rare,
to whom aught else but sordid gain is dear.
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO.


102
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
True feeling is a rustic vulgarity the flirt
does not tolerate ; she counts its healthiest
and most honest manifestation all sentiment.
Donald G. MITCHELL.
It is difficult for a woman to keep a secret;
and I know more than one man who is a
woman.
AUGUST HEINRICH JULIUS LAFONTAINE.
ALL the evil that women have done to us
comes from us, and all the good they have
done to us comes from them.
AIMI MARTIN.
HAVE a useful and good wife in the house,
or don't marry at all.
EURIPIDES.
THERE are beautiful flowers that are scent.
less, and beautiful women that are unlovable.
HOUELLE.
None can do a woman worse despite than
to call her old.
Ludovico ARIOSTO.
WOMAN, — erring, noble woman; first at
the forbidden tree, first at duty's call.
FREDERICK W. MORTON.
He who flatters women most pleases them
best, and they are most in love with him
who they think is most in love with them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
103
SUITORS of a wealthy girl seldom seek for
proof of her past virtue. ANONYMOUS.
One of the principal occupations of men
is to divine women.
JEAN CHARLES DOMINIQUE LACRETELLE.
Men do not always love those they esteem;
women, on the contrary, esteem only those
they love.
S. Dubay.
I will not affirm that women have no
character; rather, they have a new one every
day.
Heinrich Heine.
In benevolence, women excel in charity,
which alleviates individual suffering, rather
than in philanthropy, which deals with large
masses and is more frequently employed in
preventing than in allaying calamity.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.
It is usual in young wives, before they
have been many weeks married, to assume a
bold, forward look and manner of talking, as
if they intended to signify to all companies
that they were no longer girls.
JONATHAN Swift.
The only person who can cure one of a
woman is that woman herself. ANONYMOUS


106
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMAN is the nervous part of humanity;
man, the muscular. Jean Noël HALLÉ.
O WOMAN, woman! thou art formed to
bless the heart of restless man. J. BIRD.
WOMEN are often ruined by their sensi-
tiveness and saved by their coquetry.
Mlle. Azais.
Maids must be wives and mothers to ful-
fil the entire and holiest end of woman's
being. FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE BUTLER.
It is not always for virtue's sake that
women are virtuous.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
The society of women is the element of
good manners. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE.
WOMAN is the Sunday of man.
JULES MICHELET.
If a woman has any malicious mischief to
do, her memory is immortal.
Titus Maccius PLAUTUS.
WHEN women have passed thirty, the first
thing they forget is their age; when they
have attained the age of forty, they have
entirely lost the remembrance of it.
Ninox DE LENCLOS.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
107
EVEN if women were immortal, they could
never foresee their last lover.
HUGUES FÉLICITÉ ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS.
It has been justly observed that heroines
are best painted in general terms.
LEIGH HUNT.
The man who does not love women is one
of Nature's blunders. — an anomaly, an ag-
gregation of crude material, an apology for
what God intended him to be. Like Adam,
we must all seek a missing rib in the gentler
sex.
FREDERICK W. Morton.
My children, in marriage there is nothing
good but the day before. OCTAVE FEUILLET.
NOTHING is so sure a cure for love of
women as acquaintance with the men they
admire.
JEAN JACQUES Weiss.
NATURE OF WOMAN'S SUPREMACY.
“The time will come, I trust, when women
will no longer be contented with the few
empty and exaggerated compliments in which
men pay them off, — angelic creatures !'
'poet's theme !' and so on; stuff that
springs from what Diogenes calls the spooney


108
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
view of women, and only applicable to the
young and handsome, – a very small minor-
ity. ... The supremacy of women in this
country is like that of the Mikado in Japan,
- a sovereign sacred and irresponsible, but
on condition of sitting still and leaving the
management of affairs, the real business of
life, to others. It is the same theory of gov-
ernment with which the constitutionalists
tormented the late Louis Philippe, — Le roi
régne et ne gouverne pas. He was unwilling
to accept such a position, and so am I. I
cannot take a pride in insignificance and
uselessness, although I confess with shame
that most women do; the result of which is,
that we have not the kind of influence we
ought to have, and that a real, hearty, genu-
ine respect for women does not exist. In
every man's heart there lurks a mild con-
tempt for us, because of our ignorance of
business, politics, and practical matters gen-
erally outside of the nursery and the milli-
ner's shop. The best of you look upon us
and our doings as grown people look at
pretty children and their plays, — with a
good-natured feeling of superiority, and a
smile half pleasure and half pity. The truth


XI.
If a woman refrains from absurd or hate-
ful words and acts, and if she is beautiful to
boot, we are straightway convinced that she
is a paragon of wisdom and morality.
Count LyoF N. TOLSTOÏ.
If we men require more perfection from
women than from ourselves, it is doing them
honor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
How many women since the days of Echo
and Narcissus have pined themselves into air
for the love of men who were in love only
with themselves ? MRS. ANNA JAMESON.
Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O!
Her 'prentice han' she tried on man,
An' then she made the lasses, O!
ROBERT BURNS.
THE castle that parleys and the woman
who listens are ready to surrender.
FRENCH ADAGE.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
III
You cannot think the buckling on of the
knight's armor by his lady's hand was a
mere caprice of romantic fashion. It is the
type of an eternal truth, — that the soul's
armor is never well set to the heart unless
a woman's hand has braced it.
John Ruskin.
STRANGE that the gods should have given
an antidote against the venom of savage
serpents and none against that of a bad
woman.
EURIPIDES.
A WOMAN is more influenced by what she
divines than by what she is told.
NINON DE LENCLOS.
We never fall in love with a woman, in
distinction from women, until we can get an
image of her through a pinhole.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
HOWEVER talkative a woman may be, love
teaches her silence.
ROCHEBRUNE
WOMEN always show more taste in adorn-
ing others than themselves; and the reason
is, that their persons are like their hearts, —
they read another's better than they can
their own.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
113
A WOMAN is a well-served table that one
sees with different eyes before and after the
meal.
ANONYMOUS
The materials that go to the making of
one woman were set free by the abstraction
from inanimate nature of one man's-worth
of masculine constituents.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
WOMEN especially are to be talked to as
below men and above children.
LORD CHESTERFIELD.
WOMEN are wise impromptu, fools on
reflection.
ITALIAN PROVERB.
WOMAN's tongue a tempter? Perhaps.
But men's willing ears woo the seduction.
FREDERICK W. MORTON.
WHEN joyous, a women's license is not
to be endured; when in terror, she is a
plague.
ÆSCHYLUS.
MODESTY in woman is a virtue most de-
serving, since we do all we can to cure her
of it.
LINGRÉE.
WHEN we speed to the devil's house, woman
takes the lead by a thousand steps.
Johann WOLFGANG VON GOETHE.


114
WOMAN IN EPIGRAJ.
When a woman pronounces the name of
a man but twice a day, there may be some
doubt as to the nature of her sentiments;
but three times ! HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
Women know by nature how to disguise
their emotions far better than the most con.
summate male courtier can do.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
WOMAN alone knows true loyalty of affec-
tion,
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER.
THAT the sharper and sincerer feelings of
women make them more capable than men
of sacrificing their interests to their passions,
less likely to sacrifice their passions to their
interests, and that they are more absorbed by
their sympathies and antipathies, admits of no
WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
To say the truth, I never yet knew a
tolerable woman to be fond of her own
sex.
JONATHAN SWIFT.
"I LIKE women,” said a clear-headed man
of the world, “ they are so finished.” They
finish society, manners, language. Form and
ceremony are their realm. They embellish
trifles.
Ralph Waldo EMERSON


XII.
Who trusts himself to woman or to waves
should never hazard what he fears to lose.
JOHN OLDMIXON.
THERE are three things that women throw
away, — their time, their money, and their
health. Marie THÉRÈSE RODET GEOFFRIN.
THE pleasant man a woman will desire for
her own sake, but the languishing lover has
nothing to hope from but her pity.
Sir RICHARD STEELE.
WOMAN is an overgrown child that one
amuses with toys, intoxicates with flattery,
and seduces with promises.
MME. SOPHIE ARNOULD.
MEN will never forgive a dress that is
badly cut, tastelessly trimmed, or suggestive
of mauvais ton. Every coquette is keenly
conscious of this; every innocent girl is
unconsciously aware of this.
Count Lyof N. Tolstoi.


124
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
In condemning the vanity of women, men
complain of the fire they themselves have
kindled.
LINGRÉE.
A PRUDE ought to be condemned to meet
only indiscreet lovers.
HORACE NAPOLÉON RAISSON.
WOMEN always speak the truth, but not the
whole truth.
ITALIAN PROVERB.
MANY young girls have a strange audacity
blended with their instinctive delicacy.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
FRIENDSHIP that begins between a man
and a woman will soon change its name.
ANONYMOUS.
The happiest women, like the happiest
nations, have no history. GEORGE Eliot.
WOMEN are formed by nature to feel some
consolation in present troubles, by having
them always in their mouth and on their
tongue.
EURIPIDES.
THERE is nothing fixed, enduring, vital, in
the feelings of women; their attachments to
one another are so many pretty bows of rib-
bon. I notice these light affections in all
female friends.
EUGÉNE DE GUÉRIN.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
- according to the rule, “Take their first
advice, not their second : " as Coleridge
was wont to apply to a lady for her judg-
ment in questions of taste, and accept it;
but when she added, “I think so, be-
cause —” “ Pardon me, madam," he said,
“ leave me to find out the reasons for my-
self.” In this sense, as more delicate mer-
curies of the imponderable and immaterial
influences, what they say and think is the
shadow of coming events. Their dolls are
indicative. Among our Norse ancestors
Frigga was worshipped as the goddess of
women. “Wierdes all,” said the Edda,
“ Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them
never." That is to say, all wisdoms Woman
knows, though she takes them for granted,
and does not explain them as discoveries,
like the understanding of man. Men re-
mark figure; women always catch the ex-
pression. They inspire by a look, and pass
with us not so much by what they say or do,
as by their presence. They learn so fast
and convey the result so fast as to outrun
the logic of their slow brother and make
his acquisitions poor. 'T is their mood and
tone that is important. Does their mind


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
131
Tell a mother or her daughter the plain
truth, namely, that all her efforts are di-
rected to the one end of catching a hus-
band. Heavens ! what an insult that would
be.
Count Lyof N. Tolstoi.
WHEREVER a true wife comes, this home is
always round her. The stars only may be
over her head; the glow-worm in the night.
cold grass may be the only fire at her foot;
but home is yet wherever she is.
JOHN RUSKIN.
How little do lovely women know what
awful beings they are in the eyes of inex-
perienced youth! WASHINGTON Irving.
DURING their youth women wish to be
treated as divinities; they adore the ideal ;
they cannot bear the idea of being what
Nature wishes them to be. ANONYMOUS.
A SPIRIT pure as hers
Is always pure, even while it errs :
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
THOMAS Mooke.
Love is a bird that sings in the heart of a
woman.
ALPHONSE KARR.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
133
One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman
is to cause regret.
PAUL CHEVALIER.
MAN without woman is head without body;
woman without man is body without head.
GERMAN PROVERB.
WRINKLES disfigure a woman less than ill-
nature.
ANTOINE DUPUY.
I am sure I do not mean it an injury to
women when I say there is a sort of sex in
souls.
SIR RICHARD STEELE.
A WOMAN, when she has passed forty, be-
comes an illegible scrawl; only an old
woman is capable of divining old women.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
What is civilization? I answer, the power
of good women. Ralph Waldo EMERSON.
SCIENCE seldom renders men amiable;
women, never.
EDME PIERRE CHANVOT DE BEAUCHÊNE.
He's a fool, who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will.
WILLIAM TUKE.
The egotism of woman is always for two.
MME. DE STAËL.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
MEN know that women are an over-match
for them, and therefore choose the weakest
or most ignorant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
WOMAN's sensibility lights up, and quivers
and falls, like the flame of a sea-coal fire.
DONALD G. MITCHELL.
The weakness of woman gives to some
men a victory that their merit would never
gain.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN like brave men exceedingly, but
audacious men still more. CHARLES LE MESLE.
A WOMAN that is ill-treated has no refuge
in her griefs but in silence and secrecy.
Sir RICHARD STEELE,
CAPABLE of all kinds of devotion, and of
all kinds of treason, “ Monster incomprehen-
sible," raised to the second power, woman
is at once the delight and the terror of
man.
Henri FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL.
THERE are only two good women in the
world : one of them is dead, and the other
is not to be found. German PROVERB.
The most beautiful object in the world, it
will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
137
Love has no such sacredness, is incapable
of such exaltation with man as it has and is
with woman. To him it is the appanage of
egotism; it is flattered vanity; it is selfish-
ness glossed with sentiment. He loves to be
loved. She loves to love.
JUNIUS Henri Browne.
No woman can be handsome by the force
of features alone, any more than she can be
witty only by the help of speech.
JOHN HUGHES.
Every pretty girl one sees is a reminis-
cence of the garden of Eden.
FREDERICK SHELDON.
THE Marys who bring ointment for our
feet get but little thanks.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
WOMEN's faces are pages of divine revela-
tion; and smiles, glances, blushes, and frowns
are the punctuation marks. The blush is
the exclamation point, and the frown means
a full stop.
FREDERICK W. MORTON.
We censure the inconstancy of women
when we are the victims; we find it charm-
ing when we are the objects.
Louis CLAUDE JOSEPH DESNOYERS


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MOTHER is the name for God in the lips
and hearts of little children.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
CLEOPATRA is born again incessantly, eter-
nal symbol of the weakness of man before
the power of woman. PIERRE JOSEPH Cantel.
WOES OF FADED BEAUTY.
The condition of a young woman who has
never thought or heard of any other excel-
lence than beauty, and whom the sudden
blast of disease wrinkles in her bloom, is
indeed sufficiently calamitous. She is at
once deprived of all that elated her pride,
or animated her activity; all that filled her
days with pleasure and her nights with hope;
all that gave gladness to the present hour, or
brightened her prospects of futurity. It is
perhaps not in the power of man, whose
attention has been divided by diversity of
pursuits, and who has not been accustomed
to derive from others much of his happiness,
to imagine to himself such helpless destitu-
tion, such dismal inanity. Every object of
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139
away, and the soul finds every receptacle of
ideas empty, or filled only with the memory
of joys that can return no more, — all the
gloomy privation, or impotent desire; the
faculties of anticipation slumbering in de-
spondency, or the powers of pleasure mutiny
for employment. I was so little able to find
entertainment for myself, that I was forced in
a short time to venture abroad, as the solitary
savage is driven by hunger from his cavern.
I entered with all the humility of disgrace
into assemblies, where I had lately sparkled
with gayety, and towered with triumph. I
was not wholly without hope, that dejection
had misrepresented me to myself, and that
the remains of my former face might yet have
some attraction and influence; but the first
circle of visits convinced me, that my reign
was at an end ; that life and death were no
longer in my hands; that I was no more to
practise the glance of command, or the
frown of prohibition ; to receive the tribute
of sighs and praises, or be soothed with the
gentle murmurs of amorous timidity. My
opinion was now unheard, and my proposals
were unregarded; the narrowness of my
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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
discovered, when the eyes were no longer
engaged against the judgment. . . . Though
the negligence of the men was not very
pleasing when compared with vows and ado-
ration, yet it was far more supportable than
the insolence of my own sex. . . . Some
soothed me with the observation that none
can tell how soon my case may be her own;
and some thought it proper to receive me
with mournful tenderness, formal condo-
lence, and consolatory blandishments. Thus
was I every day harassed with all the
stratagems of well-bred malignity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.


XIV.
WHEN a world of men
Could not prevail with all their oratory,
Yet hath a woman's kindness overruled.
William SHAKESPEARE.
WHEN one writes of woman he must re-
serve the right to laugh at his ideas of the
day before.
ANTOINE RICARD.
Who hath a fair wife hath need of more
than two eyes.
PROVERB.
MEN bestow compliments only on women
who deserve none.
MME. Bachi.
WOMAN is more the companion of her own
thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned
to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look
for consolation ? WASHINGTON Irving.
VANITY, shame, and, above all, temper-
ament often make the valor of men and the
virtue of women.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.


142
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
BACHELORS are providential beings; God
created them for the consolation of widows
and the hope of maids. J. DE FINOD.
Would you hurt a woman most, aim at
her affections.
LEW WALLACE.
A wise man ought often to admonish his
wife, to reprove her seldom, but never to lay
hands on her.
MARCUS AURELIUS.
A WOMAN of honor should never suspect
another of things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.
We only demand that a woman should be
womanly; which is not being exclusive.
LEIGH HUNT.
MAN forsakes Christianity in his labors ;
woman cherishes it in her solitudes and trials.
Man lives by repelling, woman by enduring,
— and here Christianity meets her.
· William ELLERY CHANNING.
Women for the most part do not love us.
They do not choose a man because they love
him, but because it pleases them to be loved
by him. They love love of all things in the
world, but there are very few men whom
they love personally. ALPHONSE KARR.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
143
It is not easy to be a widow; one inust
resume all the modesty of girlhood, without
being allowed even to feign ignorance.
MME. DE GIRARDIN.
A WOMAN, if she be really your friend, will
have a sensitive regard for your character,
honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you
to do a shabby thing; for a woman friend
always desires to be proud of you.
WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
A WOMAN's hopes are woven as sunbeams;
a shadow annihilates them.
GEORGE Eliot.
She was in the lovely bloom and spring-
time of womanhood, — at that age when, if
ever, angels be, for God's purposes, enthroned
in mortal forms, they may be, without im-
piety, supposed to abide in such as hers.
CHARLES DICKENS.
It is women's way. They always love color
better than form, rhetoric better than logic,
priestcraft better than philosophy, and flour-
ishes better than figures. ANONYMOUS.
A PRUDE exhibits her virtue in word and
manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in
her conduct.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.


144
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
Or light or dark, or short or tall,
She sets a springe to snare them all ;
All's one to her — above her fan
She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.
TEARS are the strength of women.
CHARLES DE SAINT-EVREMOND.
A WOMAN'S best qualities do not reside in
her intellect, but in her affections. She gives
refreshment by her sympathies rather than
by her knowledge. SAMUEL SMILES.
A WOMAN's thought runs before her ac-
tions.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
It is valueless to a woman to be young
unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
The reputation of a woman may be com-
pared to a mirror, shining and bright, but
liable to be sullied by every breath that
comes near it. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.
MANY men kill themselves for love, but
many more women die of it.
PIERRE EDOUARD LEMONTEY.
SILENCE and modesty are the best orna-
ments of women.
EURIPIDES.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
145
THE brain-women never interest us like
the heart-women; white roses please less
than red. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
MAIDENS, like moths, are ever caught by
glare,
And Mammon wins his way where seraphs
might despair.
LORD BYRON.
A woman is seldom roused to great and
courageous exertion but when something
most dear to her is in immediate danger.
JOANNA BAILLIE.
A MAN can keep another person's secret
better than his own; a woman, on the con-
trary, keeps her secret though she blabs all
others.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.
Men speak of what they know; women
of what pleases them.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU.
A WOMAN for a general, and the soldiers
will be women.
LATIN PROVERB.
COQUETRY is the desire to please, without
the want of love.
ROCHEPÉDRE.
BEFORE marriage, woman is a queen; after
marriage, a subject.
ANONYMOUS.
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146
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
COQUETRY is a continual lie, which renders
a woman more contemptible and more dan-
gerous than a courtesan who never lies.
BERNARD DE VARENNES.
The test of civilization is the estimate of
woman.
George WILLIAM Curtis.
PROVIDED a woman be well principled, she
has dowry enough.
Titus Maccius PLAUTUS.
The more women have risked, the more
they are ready to sacrifice.
CHARLES PINEAU Duclos.
WOMEN'S eyes are armed with micro-
scopes to see all the little defects and dis-
similarities which can irritate and injure
their friendships. Hence there are so many
feminine friends easily provoked to mutual
criticisms and recriminations.
William ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
A FLATTERED woman is always indulgent.
ANDRÉ CHENIER.
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end;
Young without lovers, old without a friend ;
A fop their passion, but their prize a sot ;
Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
147
FRIENDSHIP between two youths is martial,
adventurous, a trumpet-blast or a bugle-air ;
friendship between two girls is poetic, con-
templative, the sigh of a harp-string or the
swell of an organ-pipe.
WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
SOME cunning men choose fools for their
wives, thinking to manage them, but they
always fail.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather
male than female.
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN.
The man is the head of the woman, but
she rules him by her temper.
Russian PROVERB.
WOMEN are in general more addicted to
the petty forms of vanity, jealousy, spiteful-
ness, and ambition, and they are also inferior
to men in active courage.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.
CERTAIN importunities always please wo-
men, even when the importuner does not
please.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN are too imaginative and sensitive
to have much logic.
1 logic,
MME. DU DEFFAND.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
It is difficult for a woman ever to try to be
anything good when she is not believed in,
-- when it is always supposed that she must
be contemptible.
GEORGE ELIOT.
Woman's beauty, the forest's echo, and
rainbows soon pass away.
GERMAN PROVERB.
A COQUETTE is one that is never to be per-
suaded out of the passion she has to please,
nor out of a good opinion of her own
beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISON.
The vows that woman makes to her fond
lover are only fit to be written on air or on
the swiftly running stream.
Caius VALERIUS CATULLUS.
WHEN a lady walks the streets, she leaves her
virtuous-indignation countenance at home.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
WOMEN'S GREAT NEED.
If one tenth of the efforts which women
now make to fill their time with amusements
or to gratify outward ambition were devoted
to personal improvement and to the culti-
vation of high-toned friendships with each


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
other, it would do more than anything else
to enrich and embellish their lives, and to
crown them with contentment. Their char-
acters would thus be elevated, their hearts
warmed, their minds stored, their manners
refined, and kindness and courtesy infused
into their intercourse. Nothing else will
ever add to society the freshness, variety,
and stimulant charm, the noble truths and
aspirations, the ingenuous co-operating affec-
tions, whose absence at present makes it
often so deceitful and repulsive, so barren
and wearisome. The relish of existence is
destroyed, the glory of the universe dark-
ened, to multitudes of tender and high-
souled persons by the loathsome insincerity
and treachery, the frivolous fickleness, the
petty suspicions and envies, and the incom-
petent judgments which they are constantly
meeting. These superficial and miserable
vices of common society disenchant the soul,
and dry up the springs of love and hope.
They are fatal to that magnanimous wisdom
and that trustful sympathy which compose at
once the brightest ornaments of our nature
and the costliest treasures of experience.
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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
where meet the honest hand, the open heart,
the serious mind, the frank voice, the up-
ward eye, the emulous and helpful soul
largely endowed with knowledge and rever-
ence! Then one would never be troubled
with that frightfully depressing feeling, — the
feeling that there is nothing worth living for.
Verily, the most dismal of all deaths is to die
from lack of sufficient motive for living.
And is it not to be feared that many in our
age die this death?
William ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.


XV.
WOMAN, divorced from home, wanders
unfriended like a waif upon the wave.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE.
WOMEN are right to crave beauty at any
price, since beauty is the only merit that
men do not contest with them.
ANTOINE DUPUY.
Your true flirt plays with sparkles; her
heart, much as there is of it, spends itself
in sparkles; she measures it to sparkle, and
habit grows into nature.
Donald G. MITCHELL.
The prejudices of men emanate from the
mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices
of women emanate from the heart, and are
impregnable.
JEAN BAPTISTE DE BOYER D'ARGENS.
WOMEN are the poetry of the world in the
same sense as the stars are the poetry of
heaven.
Francis HARGRAVE.


152
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
The weaknesses of women have been given
them by Nature, to exercise the virtues of
men.
MME. NECKER.
The beauty of some women has days and
seasons, and depends upon accidents which
diminish or increase it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.
We meet in society many attractive women
whom we would fear to make our wives.
COLIN D'HARLEVILLE.
The woman who plays with the love of a
loyal man is a curse; she may close his heart
forever against all confidence in her sex.
ANONYMOUS.
A WOMAN with whom one discusses love is
always in expectation of something.
A. POINCELOT.
It is the male that gives charms to woman-
kind, that produces an air in their faces, a
grace in their motions, a softness in their
voices, and a delicacy in their complexions.
JOSEPH ADDISON.
In life, woman must wait until she is asked
to love, as in a salon she waits for an invita-
tion to dance.
ALPHONSE KARR.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
155
WOMEN have the genius of charity. A man
gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her
sympathy. ERNEST Wilfrid LEGOUVÉ.
WOMAN's power is over the affections. A
beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its
forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
BOVEE.
To remain virtuous, a man has only to
combat his own desires; a woman must
resist her own inclinations and the continual
attack of man. Nicolas VALENTIN DE LATÉNA.
A CUNNING woman is a knavish fool.
LORD LYTTLETON,
A WOMAN often thinks she regrets the
lover, when she only regrets the love.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Even the satyrs, like men, in one way or
another, could win the love of women.
RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON.
You wish to create Eve over again, or
rather to call forth a female Adam. I
object.
FREDERICK SHELDON. "
LET a man pray that none of his woman-
kind should form a just estimation of him.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.


156
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM,
The evil in women is usually communi-
cated by men. Much of the deceit of which
they are accused is the effect of masculine
inoculation.
JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE.
THE lover never sees personal resem-
blances in his mistress to her kindred or to
others.
Ralph WALDO EMERSON.
The friendship of a man is often a sup-
port; that of a woman is always a conso-
lation.
ROCHEPÈDRE.
Woman is the blood royal of life ; let there
be slight degrees of precedence among them,
but let them all be sacred.
ROBERT BURNS.
The woman who is resolved to be respected
can make herself to be so, even amidst an
army of soldiers. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.
To form devices quick is woman's wit.
EURIPIDES.
A BEAUTIFUL woman is the paradise of the
eyes, the hell of the soul, and the purgatory
of the pulse.
ANONYMOUS
If you would make a pair of good shoes,
take for the sole the tongue of a woman; it
never wears out.
ALSATIAN PROVERB.
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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM. 157
ONE is always a woman's first lover.
PIERRE DE LACLOS.
A MAN must be a fool who does not suc-
ceed in making a woman believe that which
flatters her.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
I HAVE seen faces of women that were fair
to look upon, yet one could see that the
icicles were forming round these women's
hearts.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
WOMAN's work, grave sirs, is never done.
LAWRENCE EUSDEN.
THE highest mark of esteem a woman can
give a man is to ask his friendship, and the
most signal proof of her indifference is to
offer him hers.
ANONYMOUS.
Man is the will, and Woman the senti-
ment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the
rudder, and Sentiment the sail. When
Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only
a masked sail. Ralph Waldo EMERSON.
A WOMAN's preaching is like a dog's walk-
ing on his hind legs. It is not done well,
but you are surprised to find it done at all.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
159
ing than to behold a soft and tender female,
who has been all weakness and dependence,
and alive to every trivial roughness while
treading the prosperous paths of life, sud-
denly rising in mental force to be the com-
forter and supporter of her husband under
misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking
firmness, the bitterest blasts of adversity.
As the vine which has long twined its grace-
ful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by
it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant
is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it
with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its
shattered boughs; so is it beautifully ordained
by Providence that woman, who is the mere
dependant and ornament of man in his hap-
pier hours, should be his stay and solace
when smitten with sudden calamity,— wind-
ing herself into the rugged recesses of his
nature, tenderly supporting the drooping
head, and binding up the broken heart. I
was once congratulating a friend, who had
around him a blooming family, knit together
in the strongest affection. “I can wish you
no better lot,” said he with enthusiasm,
“ than to have a wife and children. If you
are prosperous, there they are to share your


XVI.
WOMEN have, in general, but one object,
which is their beauty; upon which scarce
any flattery is too gross for them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD.
IF Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the
face of the whole world would have been
changed.
Blaise Pascal.
A WORTHLESS girl has enslaved me, - me
whom no enemy ever did. Epictetus.
An indigent female, the object probably
of love and tenderness in her youth, at a
more advanced age a withered flower, has
nothing to do but retire and die.
Robert Hall.
In love affairs, from innocence to the
fault, there is but a kiss.
Albéric Second.
The destiny of women is to please, to be
amiable, and to be loved.
ROCHEBRUNE.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's
breast,
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by
sighs ;
What careth she for hearts when once
possess’d?
LORD BYRON.
WOMEN rouge that they may not blush.
ITALIAN PROVERB.
A WOMAN in love is a very poor judge of
character.
Josiah GILBERT HOLLAND.
THERE was never yet fair woman but she
made mouths in a glass.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
A WOMAN'S whole life is the history of the
affections. The heart is her world; it is
there her ambition strives for empire.
WASHINGTON IRVING.
WOMEN never lie more astutely than when
they tell the truth to those who do not
believe them.
ANONYMOUS.
A WOMAN's friendship borders more closely
on love than man's.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
WOMEN never weep more bitterly than
when they weep with spite.
ANTOINE RICARD.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
163
THE purer the golden vessel the more
readily is it bent; the higher worth of women
is sooner lost than that of men.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
NATURE has given beauty to women which
can resist shields and spears. She who is
beautiful is stronger than iron and flame.
ANACREON.
To love her is a liberal education.
William CONGREVE.
The heart of true womanhood knows where
its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray
beyond it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
It is said woman loves courage in man,
that he may protect her. No, — she loves
courage which makes sacrifices. She loves
heroism. She loves protection, but from a
hero's arm. It is the virtue, not her own
safety, she loves.
William ELLERY CHANNING.
MILLIONS of people, generations of slaves,
perish in this penal servitude of the factories
merely in order to satisfy the whim of woman.
Count LyoF N. Tolstoï.
A WOMAN of sense ought to be above flat-
tering any man. Oliver Wendell HOLMES.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
165
The best shelter for a girl is her mother's
wing.
ANONYMOUS.
WHOEVER, allured by riches or high rank,
marries a vicious woman is a fool.
EURIPIDES.
A GOOD-TEMPERED woman, of the order
yclept buxom, not only warrants a pair of
expansive shoulders, but bespeaks our appro-
bation of them.
LEIGH Hunt.
For a woman to be at once a coquette
and a bigot is more than the meekest of hus-
bands can bear. JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.
Men love at first and most warmly; women
love last and longest. This is natural enough;
for nature makes women to be won and men
to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM Curtis.
What we call in men wisdom is in women
prudence. It is a partiality to call one greater
than the other.
Sir Richard STEELE.
AN undoubted, uncontested, conscious
beauty is, of all women, the least sensible
of flattery.
LORD CHESTERFIELD.
WOMEN who have not fine teeth laugh only
with their eyes.
MME. DE RIEUX.


166
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMEN generally consider consequences
in love, seldom in resentment.
CALEB C. COLTON.
RASCAL ! that word on the lips of a woman,
addressed to a too daring man, often means
angel !
ANONYMOUS.
Why should man, who is strong, always
get the best of it, and be forgiven so much;
and woman, who is weak, get the worst and
be forgiven so little ?
Mrs. W. K. CLIFFORD.
Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds.
GERMAN PROVERB.
WOMEN. — Their love first inspires the poet,
and their praise is his best reward.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
WOMEN have no worse enemies than women.
Jean François Duclos.
With what hope can we endeavor to per-
suade the ladies that the time spent at the
toilet is lost in vanity?
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
A MOTHER's prayers, silent and gentle, can
never miss the road to the throne of all
bounty.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.


168
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
I am ignorant of any one quality that is
amiable in a man which is not equally so in
a woman; I do not except even modesty
and gentleness of nature. Nor do I know
one vice or folly which is not equally detest-
able in both.
JONATHAN SWIFT.
LOVE thy wife as thy soul; shake her as a
plum-tree.
RUSSIAN PROVERB.
SELF-RELIANCE WOMAN'S HOPE.
In these days, when society is becoming
every day more artificial and more complex,
and marriage, as the gentlemen assure us,
more and more expensive, hazardous, and
inexpedient, women must find means to fill
up the void of existence. Men, our natural
protectors, our law-givers, our masters, throw
us upon our own resources; the qualities
which they pretend to admire in us, — the
overflowing, the clinging affections of a
warm heart, – the household devotion, — the
submissive wish to please, that feels “every
vanity in fondness lost,” – the tender, shrink-
ing sensitiveness which Adam thought so
charming in his Eve, — to cultivate these, to


XVII.
The passion for praise, which is so very
vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent
effects in women of sense.
JOSEPH ADDISON.
WITH women, friendship ends when rivalry
begins.
ANONYMOUS.
A WOMAN is easily governed if a man takes
her hand.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.
THE lover cannot paint his maiden to his
fancy poor and solitary.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
The man who can govern a woman can
govern a nation. HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
APELLES used to paint a good housewife
on a snail, to import that she was a home-
keeper.
JAMES HOWELL.
Man argues woman may not be trusted
too far; woman feels man cannot be trusted
too near.
JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE.


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WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WILLIA
Of all seasons for a lover, if he be both
delicate and artful, to approach the object of
his pursuit, that is most favorable when the
one who is sought is forlorn with the sense
of bereavement of a love which has forever
gone.
RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON.
Man carves his destiny; woman is helped
to hers.
JULIA WARD HOWE.
If the women did not make idols of us,
and if they saw us as we see each other,
would life be bearable or could society go
on?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
I LIKE mountains and clouds, trees, birds,
and flowers, — the raw material of poetry;
but to me handsome women are more pleas-
ant than all of them, — they are little poems
ready made.
FREDERICK SHELDON.
MARRY no lettered damsel, whose wise head
May prove it just to graft the horns on thine :
Marry no idiot, keep her from thy bed.
What the brains want will often elsewhere
shine.
THOMAS CHATTERTON.
WOMEN are apt to love the men who they
think have the largest capacity of loving.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
173
THERE are few women whose charms sur-
vive their beauty.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
A WOMAN despises a man for loving her
unless she happens to return his love.
ELIZABETH STODDARD.
BEAUTY is the first gift Nature gives to
woman, and the first she takes from her.
GEORGES BROSSIN DE MÉRÉ.
WOMEN must have their wills while they
live, because they make none when they
die.
PROVERB.
Most women spend their lives in robbing
the old tree from which Eve plucked the
first fruit.
OCTAVE FEUILLET.
WHAT is it that love does to women ?
Without it, she only sleeps ; with it alone,
she lives.
QUIDA.
FEMALE levity is no less fatal to them after
marriage than before. Joseph ADDISON.
THE highest dressers, the highest face-
painters, are not the loveliest women, but
such as have lost their loveliness, or never
had any.
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A COQUETTE sparkles, but it is more the
sparkle of a harmless and pretty vanity than
of calculation. DONALD G. MITCHELL.
NATURE has hardly formed a woman ugly
enough to be insensible to Aattery upon her
person.
LORD CHESTERFIELD.
God has placed the genius of women in
their hearts, because the works of this genius
are always works of love.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.
HER step is music, and her voice is song.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY.
To think of the part one little woman can
play in the life of a man, so that to renounce
her may be a very good imitation of heroism,
and to win her may be a discipline !
GEORGE ELIOT.
The truth is, women are lost because they
do not deliberate.
AMELIA E. BARR.
WHEN God thought of Mother, he must
have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it
quickly, — so rich, so deep, so divine, so full
of soul, power, and beauty was the con-
ception.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.


176
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
A WOMAN may always help her husband by
what she knows, however little ; by what she
half knows, or mis-knows, she will only tease
him.
John RuskIN.
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguish-
able passion of woman, coeval with the act
of breathing.
Alain RENÉ LESAGE.
WOMEN of the world never use harsh ex-
pressions when condemning their rivals.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN are, for the most part, good or
bad, as they fall among those who practise
vice or virtue.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
WOMEN exceed the generality of men in
love.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.
WOMEN commend a modest man, and like
him not.
PROVERB.
A DELICATE woman is the best instrument;
she has such a magnificent compass of
sensibilities. Oliver WENDELI, HOLMES.
To say “Every one is talking about him "
is a eulogy; but to say “Every one is
talking about her" is an elegy.
ANONYMOUS.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
177
WHATEVER may be thought of its theologi-
cal propriety, there can be little doubt that the
Catholic reverence for the Virgin has done
much to elevate and purify the ideal of
woman, and to soften the manners of men.
WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY.
The lives of noble women are “so trans-
parent and so deep that only the subtile
insight of sympathy can penetrate them ;”
their open secrets baffle all the scrutiny of
coarse souls. William ROUNSEVILLE ALGER.
LET us have the true woman, the adorner,
the hospitable, the religious heart, and no
lawyer need be called in to write stipulations,
the cunning clauses of provision, the strong
investures, — for woman moulds the lawgiver
and writes the law. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A WOMAN is like your shadow : follow her,
she flies; fly from her, she follows. PROVERB.
WOMAN is a changeable thing, as our
Virgil informed us at school; but her change
par excellence is from the fairy you woo to
the brownie you wed.
EDWARD BULWER-Lytton.
How many ways to the heart has a
woman!
William ELLERY CHANNING.
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178
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WHAT manly eloquence could produce
such an effect as woman's silence !
JULES MICHELET.
WHEN maidens sue, men live like gods.
PROVERB.
I THINK it takes a great deal from a
woman's modesty, going into public life; and
modesty is her greatest charm.
MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
RESPONSIBILITY OF WOMEN.
THERE is not a war in the world, no, nor
an injustice, but you women are answerable
for it; not in that you have provoked, but
in that you have not hindered. Men, by
their nature, are prone to fight; they will
fight for any cause, or for none. It is for
you to choose their cause for them, and to
forbid them when there is no cause. There
is no suffering, no injustice, no misery in the
earth, but the guilt of it lies lastly with you.
Men can bear the sight of it, but you should
not be able to bear it. Men may tread it
down without sympathy in their own struggle ;
but men are feeble in sympathy and con-


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
179
tracted in hope: it is you only who can feel
the depths of pain, and conceive the way of
its healing. Instead of trying to do this,
you turn away from it; you shut yourselves
within your park walls and garden gates; and
you are content to know that there is beyond
them a world in wilderness, - a world of
secrets which you dare not penetrate, and of
suffering which you dare not conceive. I tell
you that this is to me quite the most amazing
among the phenomena of humanity. I am
surprised at no depths to which, when once
warped from its honor, that humanity can
be degraded. I do not wonder at the
miser's death, with his hands, as they relax,
dropping gold. I do not wonder at the
sensualist's life, with the shroud wrapped
about his feet. I do not wonder at the
single-handed murder of a single victim,
done by the assassin in the darkness of the
railway, or reed shadow of the marsh. I do
not even wonder at the myriad-handed
murder of multitudes, done boastfully in the
daylight, by the frenzy of nations, and the
immeasurable, unimaginable guilt, heaped
up from hell to heaven, of their priests and
kings. But this is wonderful to me — oh,


XVIII.
A WOMAN either loves or hates; she knows
no medium.
Publius Syrus.
The error of certain women is to imagine
that, to acquire distinction, they must imitate
the manners of men.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE.
WOMAN's virtue is the music of stringed
instruments, which sounds best in a room.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
WITH women, the desire to bedeck them-
selves is always the desire to please.
JEAN FRANÇOIS DE MARMONTEL.
In life, as in a promenade, woman must
lean on a man above her. ALPHONSE Karr.
KINDNESS in women, not their beauteous
looks,
Shall win my love. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Some women need much adorning, as some
meat needs much seasoning to incite appe-
tite.
ROCHEBRUNE.


182
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
'T is beauty that doth make women proud;
'T is virtue that doth make them most ad-
mired;
'Tis government that makes them seem
divine.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
WOMEN like audacity: when one astounds
them, he interests them; and when one in-
terests them, he is very sure to please them.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN should despise slander, and fear to
provoke it.
MLLE. DE SCUDERI.
NATURE is in earnest when she makes a
woman.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
HOWEVER virtuous a woman may be, a
compliment on her virtue is what gives her
the least pleasure.
PRINCE DE LIGNE.
No man has yet discovered the means of
giving successfully friendly advice to women,
— not even to his own.
HONORÉ DE Balzac.
The anger of a woman is the greatest evil
with which one can threaten his enemies.
CHILLON.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
185
SILENCE has been given to woman to bet-
ter express her thoughts.
Louis CLAUDE JOSEPH DESNOYERS.
NATURE has given women so much power
that the law has very wisely given them
little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
The society of women endangers men's
morals and refines their manners.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT MONTESQUIEU.
WOMEN are supernumerary when present,
and missed when absent.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB.
THE virtuous woman who falls in love is
much to be pitied.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
A COQUETTE is more occupied with the
homage we refuse her than with that we
ANTOINE DUPUY.
A WOMAN without religion is even worse, –
a flame without heat, a rainbow without color,
a flower without perfume.
Donald G. MITCHELL.
WOMEN are extremists; they are either
better or worse than men.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE.


186
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
A WOMAN once fallen will shrink from no
impropriety. Caius Cornelius Tacitus.
I DON'T want a woman to weigh me in a
balance; there are men enough for that sort
of work.
Oliver WENDELL HOLMES.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?
LORD BYRON.
WOMEN soften our character, and yet make
us heroic. The same traits of character pro-
duce these different effects.
William ELLERY CHANNING.
WOMEN, like empresses, condemn to im-
prisonment and hard labor nine tenths of
mankind.
Count Lyof N. TOLSTOÏ.
THERE is one dangerous science for women,
- one which let them indeed beware how
they profanely touch, — that of theology.
John Ruskin.
A WOMAN's fame is the tomb of her happi-
ness.
PROVERB.
DIFFUSE knowledge generally among women,
and you will at once cure the conceit which
knowledge occasions while it is rare.
SYDNEY SMITH.


190
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
be so great that through them she would
practically rule the future of the world ; but
she delegates her influence to the vile school-
boards, if she be poor, and if she be rich,
to governesses and tutors, — nor does she,
in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, ever
attempt to educate or control herself into
fitness for the personal exercise of such in-
fluence. Not to speak of the entire guid-
ance of childhood, — which is certainly
already chiefly in the hands of woman, and
of which her use does not do her much
honor, — so long as she goes to see one of
her own sex dancing in a lion's den, the
lions being meanwhile terrorized by a male
brute ; so long as she wears dead birds as
millinery and dead seals as coats; so long as
she goes to races, steeplechases, coursing,
and pigeon matches; so long as she “walks
with the guns; " so long as she goes to see
an American lashing horses to death in
idiotic contest with velocipedes; so long
as she courtesies before princes and em-
perors who reward the winners of distance
rides ; so long as she receives physiologists
in her drawing-rooms, and trusts to them in
her maladies; so long as she invades litera-


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
191
ture without culture and art without talent ;
so long as she orders her court dress in a
hurry; so long as she makes no attempt to
interest herself in her servants, in her ani-
mals, in the poor slaves of her tradespeople ;
so long as she shows herself, as she does at
present, without scruple at every brutal and
debasing spectacle which is considered fash-
ionable; so long as she understands nothing
of the beauty of meditation, of solitude, of
Nature ; so long as she is utterly incapable
of keeping her sons out of the shambles of
modern sport, and lifting her daughters above
the pestilent miasma of modern society, - so
long as she does not, cannot, or will not
either do or cause to do any of these things,
she has no possible title or capacity to de-
mand the place or the privilege of man.
QUIDA.


XIX.
If all women's faces were cast in the same
mould, that mould would be the grave of love.
Marie FRANÇOIS XAVIER BICHAT.
WHAT color would it not have given to my
thoughts, and what thrice washed whiteness
to my words, had I been fed on women's
praises.
Oliver WENDELL HOLMES.
ONE may see the heart of women through
the rents which one may make in their self-
love.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN and music should never be dated.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
MEN never are consoled for their first love,
nor women for their last.
JEAN JACQUES Weiss.
If the whole world were put into one
scale, and my mother into the other, the
world would kick the beam.
LORD LANDDOMES.


WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
193
It is often woman who inspires us with
the great things that she will prevent us from
accomplishing.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
A MAN who is known to have broken many
hearts is naturally invested with a tantalizing
charm to women who have yet hearts to be
broken.
HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN.
BETWEEN a woman's “yes” and “no” I
would not venture to stick a pin.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.
A WOMAN'S love is often a misfortune ; her
friendship is always a boon.
Louis MÉZIÈRES.
A WOMAN's head is always influenced by
her heart, but a man's heart is always influ-
enced by his head.
COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON.
WOMEN love always ; when earth slips away
from them they take refuge in heaven.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN are constantly the dupes, or the
victims, of their extreme sensitiveness.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC.
WHEN a man says he has a wife, it means
that a wife has him.
SULPICE GUILLAUME GAVARNI.
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194
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMAN is more constant in hatred than in
love.
ANONYMOUS.
WOMEN do not live in the future; their
reign is from day to day; it is the reign of
beauty which can only lose by advancing.
Women of genius who wish to govern the
world never contemplate a distant horizon.
ARSÈNE HOUSSAYE.
A WOMAN dies twice: the day that she
quits life and the day that she ceases to
please.
JEAN JACQUES Weiss.
“Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman's hair.”
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
WHAT a woman wills, God wills.
PROVERB.
WOMAN, the redeemer, the new Messiah,
must come in crimps and ribbons or receive
a slattern's welcome. Seductive beauty will
convert more souls than repellent austerity.
FREDERICK W. Morton.
SOME women kindle emotion so rapidly in
a man's heart, that the judgment cannot keep
pace with it.
THOMAS HARDY.


196
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
Would that the race of women had never
existed — except for me alone !
EURIPIDES.
The finger of the first woman loved is like
that of God: the imprint of it is eternal.
ANONYMOUS.
Most women prefer that we should talk ill
of their virtue rather than ill of their wit or
of their beauty.
JEAN GASPARD Dubois FONTANELLE.
In buying horses and in taking a wife, shut
your eyes tight and commend yourself to
God.
TUSCAN PROVERB.
All women desire to be esteemed; they
care much less about being respected.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
WOMEN are women but to become mothers ;
they go to duty through pleasure.
JOSEPH JOuBert.
COQUETRY is a net laid by the vanity of
woman to ensnare that of man.
BRUIS.
NEVER say man, but men; nor women,
but woman; for the world has thousands of
men and only one woman.
JEAN JACQUES Weiss.


198
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
ONE mother is more venerable than a thou-
sand fathers.
LAWS OF Manou.
Tell a woman that she is beautiful, and
the devil will repeat it to her ten times.
ITALIAN PROVERB.
In love, it is only the commencement that
charms. I am not surprised that one finds
pleasure in frequently re-commencing.
PRINCE DE LIGNE.
God made her small in order to do a more
choice bit of workmanship.
ALFRED DE Musset.
The venom of the female viper is more
poisonous than that of the male viper.
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
FRIENDSHIPs of women are cushions wherein
they stick their pins.
ANONYMOUS.
I HAVE found that there is an intimate
connection between the character of women
and the fancy that makes them choose such
and such material.
PROSPER MERIMÉE.
WOMAN is the most perfect when the most
womanly. William Ewart GLADSTONE.
WOMAN is at once apple and serpent.
HEINRICH HEINE.


200
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
WOMEN see without looking; their hus-
bands often look without seeing.
Louis CLAUDE JOSEPH DESNOYERS.
Most women who ride well on horseback
have little tenderness. Like the Amazons,
they lack a breast.
ANONYMOUS.
EARTH has nothing more tender than a
woman's heart when it is the abode of pity.
Martin LUTHER.
In wishing to extend her empire, woman
destroys it.
CANABIS.
WHEREVER women are honored, the gods
are satisfied.
LAWS OF MANOU.
WOMAN'S LOVE, A REFUGE.
LOVE at its highest point — love sublime,
unique, invincible — leads us straight to the
brink of the great abyss, for it speaks to us
directly of the Infinite and of eternity. It is
eminently religious; it may even become
religion. When all around a man is waver-
ing and changing ; when everything is grow-
ing dark and featureless to him in the far
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201
world seems but a fiction or a fairy tale, and
the universe a chimera ; when the whole edi-
fice of ideas vanishes in smoke, and all reali-
ties are penetrated with doubt, — what is the
fixed point which may still be his? The
faithful heart of a woman! There he may
rest his head; there he will find strength to
live, strength to believe, and, if need be,
strength to die in peace with a benediction
on his lips. Who knows if love and its beati-
tude — clear manifestation as it is of the
universal harmony of things — is not the best
demonstration of a fatherly and understand-
ing God, just as it is the shortest road by
which to reach Him? Love is a faith, and
one faith leads to another; and this faith is
happiness, light, and force. Only by it does
a man enter into the series of the living, the
awakened, the happy, the redeemed, - of
those true men who know the value of exist-
ence, and who labor for the glory of God
and the Truth. Till then we are but babblers
and chatterers; spendthrifts of our time,
our faculties, and our gifts, without aim, with-
out real joy; weak, infirm, and useless
beings, of no account in the scheme of
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202
WOMAN IN EPIGRAM.
shall find my way back to faith, to religion,
to energy, to concentration. It seems to
me, at least, that if I could but find my
work-fellow and my destined companion, all
the rest would be added unto me, as though
to confound my unbelief and make me blush
for my despair. Believe, then, in a fatherly
Providence, and dare to love !
HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL.


204
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
F.
Queen
Cobbord,
Emerson, 12, 22, 26, 34, 45, 55,
77, 80, 81, 92, 114, 125, 127,
Calderon, 46, 91.
133, 156, 157, 167, 171, 177.
Campbell, 44, 54.
Epictetus, 161.
Canabis, 200.
Euripides, 47, 73, 102, 111, 122,
Cantel, 138.
124, 132, 144, 154, 156, 165,
Cardan, 24.
196.
Catullus, 148.
Eusden, 157.
Cervantes, 105, 130, 144, 15
Evans, 64.
156, 183, 193, 197.
Chamfort, 164.
Channing, 37, 96, 142, 153, 163,
174, 177, 186.
Farquhar, 116, 122, 127.
Chateaubriaud, 104.
Fée, Mme Cécile, 91.
Chatterton, 172.
Feuillet, 107, 173, 199.
Chenier, 146.
Field, 100.
Cherbuliez, 195, 199.
Finod, De, 43, 73, 90, 95, 142.
Chesterfield, 65, 102, 113, 127,
Flemming, Paul, 47.
161, 165, 175.
Fontaines, Mme. de, 164.
Chevalier, 133.
Fontanelle, 15, 122, 196.
Chillon, 182.
Fontenelle, 56.
Christina, Queen, 24.
Foster, 132.
Clifford, 13, 97, 104, 166.
Fourier, 47.
Cobbett, 74.
Francis, 36.
Coleridge, 162.
Francis I., 48.
Colton, 93, 101, 166.
Fuller, 24.
Commerseron, 43.
Comte, 132.
Congreve, 15, 121, 163.
Cornwall, 83.
Gautier, 12, 134.
Curtis, 146, 165
Gavarni, 193.
Gay, 94, 187.
Genlis, Mme de, 63, 123.
Geoffrin, Mme., 120.
Deffand, Mme. du, 67, 147. Girard, 112.
Delatouche, 167.
Girardin, Émile de, 47, 63.
Delvau, 195.
Girardin, Mme. de, 143.
Demoustier, 134.
Gladstone, 198.
Desnoyers, 52, 137, 185, 200. Glanvill, 16.
Dickens, 121, 143.
Gleim, 52.
Diderot, 32, 95.
Goethe, 24, 54, 57, 84, 95, 106,
Dorat, 183.
113, 151.
Dryden, 17.
Goldsmith, 64, 96, 100, 192.
Dubay, 45, 103, 115.
Grabbe, 47.
Duclos, 146, 166.
Granville, 35.
Dumas, 17, 193, 195, 196 Guérin, 'Eugénie de, 67, 68,
Dupuy, 14, 71, 74, 84, 105, 133, 124.
151, 185
Guyard, 61, 121.
Guyon, Abbé, 78.
E.
H.
Eliot, 15, 21, 27, 32, 45, 55, 58,
67, 80, 92, 104, 115, 124, 125,
Haliburton, 61, 101.
135, 143, 148, 154, 175, 183. Hall, 161
G.
D.


INDEX OF AUTHORS.
205
100, 187, Langon, 24.
Hallé, 106.
L.
Hardy, 194.
La Beaumelle, 42.
Hargrave, 151.
Laboulaye, 34.
Harleville, 152.
La Bretonne, 62, ioi.
Hawthorne, 163.
Hazlitt, 52, 85.
La Bruyère, 54, 83, 86, 143,
Heine, 14, 103, 198.
145, 154, 165, 171, 176, 185.
La Chaussée, 130.
Hermes, 75.
Laclos, 83, 157.
Hesiod, 45, 56, 78.
Lacretelle, 103.
Hipponax, 66.
Lafontaine, 102.
Holland, 126, 162.
Lamartine, 25, 175.
Holmes, 11, 16, 23, 26, 28, 32,
Lamb, 38, 75, 96, 97, 121.
36, 44, 46, 53, 56, 63, 66, 72,
Lambert, 91.
84, 90, 93, 96, 104, III, 113,
Lamennais, 65, 107.
122, 124, 134, 145, 148, 153,
Landdomes, Lord, 192.
157, 163, 164, 166, 167, 172,
Landon, 24.
174, 176, 182, 183, 186, 187,
Landor, 94, 105..
192.
La Rochefoucauld, 44, 61, 106,
Homer, 126.
Houdetot, Comtesse d', 35.
112, 141, 144, 155, 167, 173,
185.
Houellé, 102.
Houssaye, 25, 51, 72, 104, 194.
Laténa, 42, 65, 77, 112, 132,
Howe, Julia Ward, 172.
155.
Howell, 171.
Lavater, 82.
Howells, 125.
Lecky, 15, 21, 32, 44, 55, 66, 78,
Hughes, 137.
92, 103, 125, 147, 177.
Legouvé, 27, 71, 155.
Hugo, 16, 35, 42, 167, 174.
Le Mesle, 135, 136.
Hunt, 18, 23, 57, 58, 74, 91,
Lemontey, 46, 130, 144.
107, 117, 142, 165, 173.
Lenclos, Ninon de, 25, 36, 92,
106, III, 126.
I.
Lesage, 81, 176.
Irving, 12, 25, 37, 43, 95, 131,
Lespinasse, Mlle. de, 36.
134, 141, 158, 162, 184.
Lessing, 28, 73;
Ligne, Prince de, 182, 198.
Limayrac, 58.
Lingrée, 113, 124.
Jameson, Mrs. Anna, 110, 168
Livius, 15, 42, 57, 112.
Jerrold, 104, 158.
Longfellow, 194.
Johnson, 16, 45, 55, 57, 67, 91,
Lowell, 28.
110, 136, 138, 147, 157, 166,
Luther, 25, 35, 200.
176, 185
Lyttleton, 90, 155.
Johnston, 155, 172.
Jonson, 65, 66.
M.
Joubert, 34, 57, 196.
Jouy, 86.
Macaulay, 43, 136.
Juvenalis, 41, 91.
Mackay, 42.
Maistre, 181.
Malherbe, 74, 126.
Manou, 195, 198, 200.
Karr, 24, 66, 72, 90, 97, 131 Maréchal, 47.
134, 142, 152, 181.
Marivaux, 62.
Keats, 37, 86.
Marmontel, 181.
Kinkel, 46.
Marston, 72.
K.


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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Martin, 75, 96, 102, 153.
Poincelot, 77, 117, 152.
Meilhan, 101.
Pope, 35, 47, 74, 77, 146 184.
Menander, 53, 81, 123, 134 Proverb, rl, 22, 31, 34, 35, 37,
Mercier, Alfred, 77.
46, 51, 53, 62, 63, 72, 80, 86,
Mercier, Louis Sebastien, 53.
92, 93, 105, 110, 113, 122, 123,
Méré, 173
124, 125, 133, 135, 136, 141,
Mérimée, 198.
145, 147, 148, 154, 156, 158,
Mézeray, 94.
162, 164, 166, 168, 173, 174,
Mézières, 193.
176, 177, 178, 185, 186, 194,
Michelet, 34, 82, 106, 132, 136, 196, 198.
164, 178.
Milton, 14, 61, 123.
R.
Mirabeau, 54.
Mitchell, 13, 18,
Raisson, 124.
122, 151, 175, 185.
Raleigh, 44, 68.
Montagu, 189.
Randolph, 76.
Montaigne, 23, 31, 57, 76.
Reinmar, 154
Montaran, Mme. de, 134.
Ricard, 26, 28, 61, 116, 123,
Montesquieu, 105, 185.
141, 162.
Montholon, 25.
Richter, 27, 33, 65, 80, 90, 111,
Moore, 13, 41, 51, 81, 131, 183,
123, 132, 163, 174, 181.
187.
Rieux, Mme. de, 123, 165.
More, 68.
Rivarol, 66.
Morton, 28, 38, 45, 48, 68, 97, Rochebrune, 91, 105, 111, 161,
102, 107, 113, 127, 137, 194,
181.
197, 199.
Rochepèdre, 71, 145, 156, 174.
Motteville, 93.
Romieu, Marie de, 87.
Müller, 22.
Rotrou, 125.
Musset, De, 126, 198.
Rousseau, 52, 75, 84, 90, 101,
126, 145, 195.
N.
Ruffini, 75.
Ruskin, 23, 51, 54, 56, 85, 101,
Napoleon I., 97.
III, 131, 176, 178, 186, 188,
Necker, Mme., 71, 15.
195.
Newton, 82.
Nibelungenlied, 135.
Nodier, 57.
Sainte-Beuve, 18.
Saint-Evremond, 16, 144, 154.
Saint-Foix, 13, 112.
Oldmixon, 120.
Saint-Prosper, 85.
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 199.
Saint Jerome, 82.
Otway, 26, 74.
Saint Thomas, 130.
Ouida, 35, 173, 189.
Salm, Mme. de, 32, 81.
Sand, 52, 199.
Saturday Review, 117.
Saville, 188.
Parfait, 67
Schefer, 197
Pascal, 161.
Schiller, 31, 41, 62, 114, 154.
Peabody, 101.
Schreiner, 48.
Petit-Senn, 87.
Scudéri, Mile. de, 182.
Pigault-Lebrun, 97.
Second, 161.
Plautus, 13, 16, 73, 106, 146." Ségur, 62.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
А .
| Bond, -age, 47, 51.
Book, -S, 13, 49, 61, 66, 90.
Action, 81, 125, 144.
Brains, 23, 82, 90, 145, 172.
Affection, -s, 12, 23, 24, 33, 37, | Brave, -ery, 55, 136, 174.
45, 54, 64, 77, 80, 114, 124, Breast, -s, 81, 162, 184, 200.
125, 142, 144, 155, 159, 162,
14, 155, 159, 162, Breath, 13, 77.
168, 197.
Brilliancy, -iant, 81, 93.
Age, 16, 56, 61, 106, 133, 161.
Brute, -s, 40, 74.
Ambition, -S, 55, 147, 162.
Amendment, 42, 148.
Angel, -S, 12, 15, 16, 53, 54, 75,
134, 166, 189.
Anger, 85, 182.
Care, -s, 23, 94, 174.
Cause, -S, 47, 91, 154.
Appetite, 48, 181.
Change, -ful, 34, 43, 177.
Apple, 15, 48, 198.
Character, -S, 34, 35, 65, 96, 103,
Argument, -S, 112, 188.
Art, -S, 22, 95, 147, 191.
143, 149, 162, 167, 169, 186,
188, 198.
Artist, -s, 56, 74
Charity, -ies, 71, 155.
Attraction, -S, 34, 84, 152.
Audacity, 81, 97, 124, 136, 182.
Charm, -s, 84, 116, 173, 193.
Chaste, -tity, 54, 75.
Author, -s, 84.
Child, -dren, 21, 24, 36, 42, 64.
71, 97, 100, 113, 120, 122, 125,
138, 189.
Bad, 45, 176, 199.
Civilization, 133, 146.
Bezutiful, 11, 74, 86, 97, rro, Cold, -ness, 12, 42, 69, 92.
121, 126, 136, 154, 163, 198. Color, 143, 192.
Beauty, 14, 18, 28, 35, 37, 38, Companion, -S, 13, 15, 141, 202,
54, 55, 57, 58, 62, 67, 72, 74, Complain, -ts, 18, 31, 33, 124.
81, 92, 117, 125, 130, 134, 138, Compliment, -S, 107, 141.
147, 148, 151, 161, 165, 173, Compromise, -S, 56, 66.
184, 187, 194, 196.
Conceal, -ment, 27, 92, 114.
Beginning, -s, 25, 198.
Conceit, -S, 56, 186.
Benevolence, 64, 103.
Condemnation, 125, 186.
Bereave, -ment, 23, 172.
Conduct, 112, 143.
Best, 11, 41, 43.
Confidence, 52, 135, 152.
Bird, -s, 20, 131, 172.
Conquest, -S, 71, 158.
Bitter, -ness, 27, 32, 47. *
22.12.
Consecration, 62, 121.
Blush, -es, -ing, 19, 31, 33, 53,
Considerate, 115, 166.
137, 162.
Consolation, 134, 141, 142, 156,
Body, -ies, 57, 133.
192.
Bold, -ness, 25, 103.
Console, 24, 48.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Constancy, 14, 194.
| Dissimulation, 62, 68, 115.
Contradiction, -s, 34, 37, 47. Divine, 34, 174, 175, 187.
Conversation, 53, 81, 89.
Divinity, 63, 95, 131.
Coquetry, 145, 146, 196.
Divorce, -d, 151.
Coquette, 14, 23, 35, 42, 43, 56, Dream, -S, 22, 85.
63, 76, 77, 85, 87, 94, 100, 105, Dress, 15, 25, 41, 45, 73, 84, 85,
117, 120, 144, 148, 165, 175, 105, 120, 122, 154, 173.
185, 187.
Drink, -ing, 32, 35.
Costume, 73, 85.
Duties, -y, 11, 23, 100, 196.
Counsel, -s, 17, 46, 91, 96, 105,
123, 143.
E.
Courage, 145, 153, 163.
Eat, -ing, 35, 96.
Coward, -ice, 14, 91
Education, 12, 15, 16, 23, 34,
Coxcomb, -5, 81, 94.
68, 132, 163, 188, 19
Create, -tion, 14, 126.
Elegance, 15, 134.
Creature, -s, 15, 22, 54, 57, 118,
Eloquence, 25, 31, 76, 178.
121.
Emotion, -S, 25, 114, 167, 194.
Crone, 13, 53, 55.
Endure, -ance, 51, 66, 95.
Crown, -s, 21, 80, 93, 116.
Enemy, 66, 166.
Cry, -ing, 24, 32, 100.
Envy, 67, 78.
Culture, 15, 189, 191.
Esteem, 84, 103, 157, 196.
Cunning, 45, 63, 147, 155. Eve, 15, 16, 48, 55, 155, 168, 173.
Cure, 57, 103, 107, 113.
Evil, -s, 16, 26, 45, 64, 68, 73,
Curiosity, 66, 174.
81, 94, 102, 126, 156, 182.
Custom, -S, 49, 72.
Excuse, 28, 39.
Experience, 21, 36, 67, 85, 112,
149.
Eye, -s, 40, 52, 57, 63, 67, 105,
Danger, 55, 145.
113, 117, 123, 141, 146, 156,
Daughter, -s, 15, 83, 131.
Dead, death, 13, 35, 66, 77, 183,
"66.22. 182. 164, 165, 183, 184, 189.
194.
F.
Dear, 91, 145.
Deceit, i6, 26, 45, 53, 67, 86, Face, -s, 27, 28, 51, 66, 76, 92,
104, 122, 146, 156.
137, 152, 157, 183, 192.
Deceive, -d, 26, 27, 53, 87. Faith, 39, 48, 54, 55, 62, 74,
Defect, -S, 63, 67, 146.
112, 115, 201.
Defence, 38, 101, 135.
Faithful, -ness, 69, 201.
Degrade, -ation, 37, 72, 186. Fancy, 22, 48, 198
Deliberate, -ation, 12, 53, 110, Fashion, -s, 36, 38, 57, 67, III,
117.
Delicate, -cy, 42, 44, 123, 124, Fault, -s, 17, 68, 77, 84, 112, 123,
161.
Delight,-ed, 15, 45, 52, 56, 68, Fear, -s, 53, 153, 154.
136, 167, 183.
Feeling, -S, 18, 71, 102, 114, 124.
Dependence, 50, 66, 159. Fickle, -ness, 34, 43
Desire, 52, 80, 130, 155.
Fire, -s, 25, 26, 33, 35, 56, 66,
Desultory, -iness, 21, 57.
124, 130, 136.
Destiny, 62, 172.
Flattery, 24, 32, 57, 62, 102,
Devil, 12, 16, 22, 44, 53, 72, 73, 120, 132, 146, 157, 161, 163,
113, 198.
165, 175.
Devotion, 13, 25, 32, 44, 52, 63, Flirt, -s, 13, 46, 102, 118, 151.
68, 136, 153, 154, 168, 199. Flower, -s, 47, 48, 65, 102, 122,
Discreet, -tion, 25, 174.
161, 172, 185, 188.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
N.
Kiss, -ing, 76, 161.
| Modesty, 62, 66, 101, 113, 121,
Knowledge, 22, 41, 93, 96, 144, 122, 125, 130, 135, 144, 158,
145, 150, 174, 186, 188.
168, 176, 178.
Moral, -s, 47, 132, 134, 185.
Mother, -S, 17, 18, 54, 57, 92,
95, 96, 97, 106, 115, 131, 138,
Lady, -ies, 14, 23, 26, 53, 55, 153, 165, 166, 175, 192, 196,
85, 95, 111, 123, 132, 135, 197, 198.
148, 187.
Music, 56, 125, 175, 181, 192.
Laugh, -ing, 31, 101, 122, 164, Mystery, 29, 38.
165, 175.
Laughter, 57, 154.
Life, 46, 80, 85, 95, 181, 184,
187, 194
Nature, 14, 36, 51, 61, 71, 72,
Lip, -S, 77, 195.
73, 86, 107, 110, 113, 115, 131,
Lock, -5, 18, 46.
132, 152, 163, 173, 182, 183,
Look, -S, 13, 17, 22, 45, 72, 185.
128, 181, 188.
Need, 80, 148.
Lot, 72, 154.
Neglect, 100, 189.
Love, 11, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, Noble, -est, 28, 86, 110.
26, 27, 32, 36, 45, 46, 54, 55,
63, 65, 74, 81, 82, 85, 93, 95,
100, 104, 107, IH, 121, 123,
Obey, -ing, 86, 132, 164.
130, 137, 142, 144, 152, 164,
165, 172, 181, 187, 192, 200.
Old, 55, 102, 133, 174.
Loveliness, 18, 51, 74, 173
Opinion, -S, 95, 115, 129.
Ornament, -S, 15, 61, 105, 144,
Lover, -s, 32, 53, 81, 82, 92,
107, 124, 134, 146, 148, 155,
159, 181.
157, 167, 171.
0.
185.
M .
Paradise, 73, 83, 116, 156.
Passion, -s, 26, 36, 42, 55, 65, 67,
Maiden, -s, 42, 52, 63, 145, 178, 68, 73, 80, 82, 96, lor, 112,
187, 199.
114, 146, 148, 171, 176.
Manners, 78, 106, 114, 177, 181, Patience, 64, 93.
Peace, 35, 43, 51, 86.
Mannish, 17, 26, 52.
Perfect, -ion, 28, 52, 110, 117,
Marriage, 21, 26, 34, 46, 47, 61, 198.
66, 72, 76, 78, 81, 87, 90, 96, Persuade, 76, 82.
JOO, 102, 107, 123, 132, 145, Philosopher, -S, 11, 48
154, 164, 172, 189.
Pity, 16, 120, 200.
Memory, 51, 106, 115.
Plaything, -s, 16, 109.
Mercy, 28, 46, 66, 80.
Please, -ant, 28, 45, 52, 53, 62,
Merit, 67, 136.
66, 102, 120, 126, 145, 147,
Messiah, 11, 194.
161, 181, 194.
Mind, -s, 57, 83, 117, 126, 132, Pleasure, -s, 33, 40, 52, 71, 84,
- 151.
87, 126, 133, 135, 176, 184,
Miracle, 34, 71, 75.
196.
Mischief, 36, 44, 88, 106, 134. I Plot, -ting, il, 24.
Misery, 16, 91, 154, 178.
Poet, -s, 22, 91, 166.
Misfortune, 105, 122, 153, 174, Poetry, 151, 172.
193.
Poor, 97, 161.
Mistake, -s, 21, 74, 86, 181. Position, 52, 87, 92, 108.
Mistress, 13, 24, 91, 95, 156. | Possess, -ions, 31, 116, 126, 162.


INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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Power, 14, 24, 28, 35, 41, 56, Seduce, -s, 84, 116, 120, 194,
62, 76, 115, 126, 127, 133, 13 195.
155, 175, 184, 185, 194.
See, 115, 200.
Praise, 65, 122, 166, 167, 171, Self-denial, 46, 79, 101.
192.
Self-love, 105, 110, 192.
Prayer, -s, 26, 34, 55, 97, 166. Self-reliance, 66, 168.
Prefer, -ence, 25, 26.
Selfish, -ness, 38, 142.
Pretty, 17, 43, 45, 78, 86, 144, Sense, 44, 85, 117, 127, 163, 171.
174.
Sensibility, 82, 136, 147, 176,
Priest, -S, 45, 46, 127.
193.
Principle, -s, 21, 96, 146. Sentiment, -al, 12, 16, 46, 80,
Promise, -s, 74, 84, 120.
86, 102, 114, 157.
Protect, -ion, 37, 121, 163, 165. Servitude, 42, 86, 163.
Pride, -s, 44, 56, 65, 76, 124, Sex, 71, 114, 133, 152, 171, 188,
143.
195, 197
Pure, -ity, 68, 121, 126, 131, 163. Shame, 42, 141.
Sigh, -s, 22, 24, 44, 162.
Silence, 31, 111, 136, 144, 178,
..185.
Queen, 29, 90, 96, 145.
Sin, -s, 15, 66, 69, 75, 84.
Quick, -ness, 115, 156. Slave, -s, 66, 67, 116, 163.
Smile, -s, 24, 44, 54, 61, 104,
R.
112, 115, 137
Society, 31, 33, 81, 86, 90, 93,
Rank, 15, 45, 75, 165.
106, 114, 152, 172, 185, 191.
Reading, 93, III.
Solitude, 31, 44, 142.
Reason, -ing, 12, 16, 21, 33, 42, Song, 154, 164, 175.
Sorrow, -S, 48, 112, 135, 141.
Religion, -ious, 27, 34, 47, 64, Soul, -s, 13, 18, 19, 36, 37, 44,
153, 167, 185, 200.
46, 57, 77, 111, 133, 156, 168,
Remembrance, 17, 82, 106, 189. 175.
Repent, -ance, 17, 77.
Speech, 25, 26, 37, 53, 61, 135,
Reputation, 56, 61, 91, 144.
137.
Resistance, 36, 93.
Spirit, -5, 85, 96, 104, 131.
Respect, 38, 75, 156, 196. Spite, 21, 78, 147, 162.
Reveal, -ation, 11, 28, 137. Sirength, 28, 38, 67, 132, 144,
Revenge, 24, 26.
166, 188, 2016
Reward, 27, 166.
Suffering, -s, 32, 57, 63, 91,
Right, -S, 52, 55, 164.
103, 178.
Rival, -ry, 85, 171.
Superior, -ity, 69, 78, 82, 107,
Romance, -S, 12, 64.
136.
Rose, -s, 23, 31, 74, 122, 145. Sympathy, 12, 13, 37, 68, 114,
Royal, 45, 156.
144, 155, 177, 179.
Ruin, -s, 18, 38, 43, 51, 65, 106.
Rule, -s, 51, 56, 86, 147, 164.
S.
Talk, -ing, 37, 56, 176, 196.
Teach, -er, 18, 9
Sacrifice, 13, 23, 28, 46, 65, 146, Tear, -s, 27, 68, 83, 92, 112,
163
144, 154, 184, 188.
Say, 62, 82, 94.
Temptation, 65, 94.
Scorn, -ed, 15, 17, 24.
Tenderness, 13, 26, 42, 65, 68,
Secret, -S, 41, 62, 101, 102, 123, 1 87, 105, 161, 200.
127, 145, 177
| Terror, 45, 113, 136.
ROS:72, 85, 115, 128.
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INDEX OF SUBJECT'S.
V.
Thought, -s, 144, 192.
W.
Tongue, 47, 71, 76, 78, 83, 94,
124, 156.
War, 34, 51, 86, 178.
Trial, -s, 33, 80, 142.
Waste, 12, 57
Trifies, 33, 57, 74, 114.
Weak, -ness, 67, 94, 136, 138,
Trouble, -s, 80, 124.
152, 159.
Trust, -S, 35, 39, 47, 51, 61, 62,
Weep, .ing, 31, 122, 162.
68, 112, 120, 171.
Widow, -s, 27, 82, 87, 104, 134,
Truth, -S, 22, 32, 62, 74, III,
135, 142, 143, 166.
124, 125, 162, 201.
Wife, -ves, 13, 24, 31, 34, 35, 36,
38, 45, 52, 55, 56, 62, 64, 71,
U.
80, 81, 88, 93, 96, 102, 103,
105, 106, 112, 121, 130, 134,
Ugliness, 14, 17, 60, 134, 175. 141, 147, 152, 153, 168, 171,
Understand, -ing, 77, 94, 101, 184, 186, 193, 196.
122, 128.
Will, 133, 157, 173, 194.
Wind, 35, 47, 112, 164.
Wine, 24, 53, 86.
Wings, 54, 165.
Valor, 100, 141.
Wisdom, 13, 85, 110, 117, 165.
Vanity, 28, 44, 47, 65, 77, 82, Wise, 25, 105, 113, 134, 142.
84, 124, 127, 141, 147, 166,
Wit, 156, 167.
175, 196.
Woe, -s, 17, 138.
Venom, 111, 117, 198.
Womanhood, 45, 143, 199.
Venus, 27, 36, 116, 122, 167.
Wonder, 13, 75, 179.
Vice, -S, 47, 67, 149, 176.
Words, 101, 110, 123, 192.
Virgin, -s, 44, 52, 62, 78, 96, Work, 54, 61, 74, 110, 157.
177.
World, 47, 54, 57, 68, 75, 141,
Virtue, -S, 12, 18, 25, 34, 36, 44, 151, 161, 162, 176, 183, 192.
46, 47, 56, 61, 64, 76, 79, 82, | Worship, 29, 153, 154.
91, 103, 104, 106, 113, 121, | Writing, 91, 141, 186, 189.
123, 125, 141, 152, 158, 163,
176, 181, 196.
Virtuous, 14, 18, 42, 65, 72, 73,
106, 115, 116, 143, 155, 182,
183, 197.
Young, 45, 55, 87, 127, 144.
Voice, 12, 19, 53, 152, 183. Youth, 22, 51, 52, 58, 95, 131,
Voluptuous, 42, 54.
147, 153.