Seek to be good, but aim 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