wish to be grossly
flattering.

* * * * *

Only the woman who has yielded to temptation is charitable, and will
help the fallen angel. Like Dido, she says:

'Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco.'

* * * * *

It is because I love and revere woman that I pity the fallen one, and
cannot say an unkind word of her.

* * * * *

I think that men should go down on their knees before the fallen women,
and implore their pardon, in the name of their sex, for the injury--the
criminal, irretrievable injury--that has been done to them by the curs
and scoundrels who are the cause of their present condition.

* * * * *

A woman is a wretched coward who, having had, in succession, the
protection of a father and of a husband, does not pity and help, if she
can, the beautiful, unprotected girl who has tried to fight the battle
of life by herself, and has been wounded.

* * * * *

Woman is an angel who seldom appreciates a man who has not a bit of the
devil in him.

* * * * *

The most religious woman will postpone an interview with her Maker for
an appointment with her dressmaker.

* * * * *

Matrimony is like any other contract: an agreement signed by two
honourable persons, each of whom, in every clause, takes the other to
be a dishonourable one.

* * * * *

A loving woman will keep her heart warm as long as she lives, and her
hair black as long as she dyes.

* * * * *

Woman is an instrument given to man for his happiness and his delight.
If the instrument gets neglected, out of tune, and broken, man should
blame himself alone. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the instrument
is right enough; it only wants to be in good and careful keeping.

* * * * *

There are only two places in the world where a beautiful woman,
fashionably dressed, can walk comfortably without being stared at by
the women like a Barnum's freak out for an airing--Paris and New York,
and perhaps Bond Street, London, during the season. Everywhere else she
has to ride or hide. There is only one spot of the earth where such a
woman c