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 not?--_De Quincey._
There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine
of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.--_Southey._
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the
person on whom she depends.--_Goethe._
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in
resentment.--_Colton._
Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent
to let the celestial origin shine through.--_Ruffini._