O woman! lovely woman! Nature form'd thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without thee.
But the sweetest thing that ever was said of woman in this amiable
capacity, or ever will be said again, is by a contemporary:--"A woman's
whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it
is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks
for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies in adventure; she
embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked,
her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart!"--_The
Ettrick Shepherd._
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