retty women without religion are like flowers without
perfume.--_Heinrich Heine._

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.--_George
Eliot._

To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her
sex.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

They 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 Whately._

The woman must not belong to herself; she is bound to alien destinies.
But she performs her part best who can take freely, of her own choice,
the alien to her heart, can bear and foster it with sincerity and
love.--_Richter._

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts; because the works of
this genius are always works of love.--_Lamartine._

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 is the Sunday of man; not his repose only, but his joy; the salt
of his life.--_Michelet._

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her
whom they most scorn.--_Charles Buxton._

It goes far to reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am
thus in no danger of ever marrying one.--_Lady Montague._

Men are women's playthings; woman is the devil's.--_Victor Hugo._

Sing of the nature of woman, and the song shall be surely full of
variety,--old crotchets and most sweet closes,--it shall be humorous,
grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly,--one in all, and all
in one!--_Beaumont._

Her step is music and her voice is song.--_Bailey._

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.--_Michelet._

Woman, sister! there are some things which you do not execute as well as
your brother, man; no, nor ever will. Pardon me, if I doubt whether you
will ever produce a great poet from your choirs, or a Mozart, or a
Phidias, or a Michael Angelo, or a great philosopher, or a great
scholar. By which last is meant, not one who depends simply on an
infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of
combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of
the resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the
unity of breathing life. If you can create yourselves into any of these
grand creators, why have you