not to be great;
A woman's noblest station is retreat:
Her fairest virtues fly from public sight;
Domestic worth,--that, shuns too strong a light.

2051

Kindness in women,
Not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.

--_Shakespeare._

2052

Alas! I am but woman, fond and weak
Without even power my proud, pure love to speak;
But oh, by all I fail in, love not me
For what I am, but what I wish to be.

2053

Manners, not jewels, are a woman's ornament.

2054

The woman who really wishes to refuse an aspirant to her hand contents
herself with saying, No. She who explains, wants to be convinced.

2055

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

--_Shakespeare._

2056

In Dr. Johnson's opinion, "a woman was well dressed, when, after seeing
her, one could not remember what she had on."

2057

A beautiful woman without fixed principles, may be likened to those fair
but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

2058

Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't,
And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't.

--_Aaron Hill._

2059

A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages, is like a flower
without fragrance, a tree without fruit.

2060

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

--_George Eliot._

2061

Learn above all, how to manage women: their thousand Ahs! and Ohs! so
thousand-fold, can be cured, but how,--I cannot tell.

--_Goethe._

2062

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

2063

In women we love that which is natural,
We admire that which is acquired,
And shun that which is artificial.

2064

TAKE TO THE WOODS.

If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrow that thou wouldst forget;
If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills!--No tears
Dim the sweet looks that Nature wears.