To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so
that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win
her may be a discipline!--_George Eliot._
Men at most differ as heaven and earth; but women, worst and best, as
heaven and hell.--_Tennyson._
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and
that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.--_Arsene
Houssaye._
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates
them.--_George Eliot._
There remains in the faces of women who are naturally serene and
peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and
later, an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful
bloom.--_Richter._
Women see without looking; their husbands often look without
seeing.--_Louis Desnoyeas._
She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at that age
when, if ever, angels be for God's good purposes enthroned in mortal
forms, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers.
Cast in so slight and exquisite a mould, so mild and gentle, so pure and
beautiful, that earth seemed not her element, nor its rough creatures
her fit companions.--_Dickens._