MEN are more eloquent than women made, But women are more powerful to persuade. THOMAS RANDOLPH.

WHEN Women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues.

SHE who spit in my face whilst I was, shall come to kiss my feet when I am no more. MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE.

SOME women are so just and discerning that they never see an opportunity to be generous. ANONYMOUS.

I AM glad I am not a man, as I should be obliged to marry a woman.

MME. DE STAËL.

THERE would be no such animals as prudes or coquettes in the world were there not such an animal as man.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

WOMEN have tongues of craft and hearts

of guile.

TORQUATO TASSO.

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.

THEOPHILE 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 surrounds 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.

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 foremost places in every department of science, literature, and art have been occupied by men, how infinitesimally small is the number 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, even in music or painting, for the cultivation of which their circumstances would appear

most propitious. It is as impossible to find. a female Raphael, or a female Handel, as a female Shakespeare or Newton. . . . Morally, the general superiority of women over men is, I think, unquestionable. If we take the somewhat coarse and inadequate criterion 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 conspicuous 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 spontaneously from the emotions; and the deliberative, 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.

VIII.

THE starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment and the infinite enlargements to which they lead.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

HOWEVER much woman may need deliverance from some outward trials and disabilities, her grand want is a freer, deeper, richer, holier inward life.

WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE Alger.

HE that hath a fair wife never wants trouble. PROVERB.

THE man who awakes the wondering, tremulous passion of a young girl always thinks her affectionate.

GEORGE ELIOT.

A WOMAN, unlike Narcissus, seeks not her own image and a second I; she much prefers a not I. JEAN PAUL RICHTER.

WOMAN is seldom merciful to the man who

is timid.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON.