There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, and that is a
Jesuitess.--_Eugene Sue._
The honor of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and
spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be.--_Adrian Dupuy._
~Words.~--There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there
are words, the point of which sting the heart through the course of a
whole life.--_Fredrika Bremer._
Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more
important than even the hour-hands of action.--_Richter._
"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband
and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the
possession of a lighted bomb-shell.--_Douglas Jerrold._
Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to
see.--_Joubert._
If we use common words on a great occasion they are the more striking,
because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old
banners, or every-day clothes, hung up in a sacred place.--_George
Eliot._
Words are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency
should be strictly regulated by the capital which they
represent.--_Colton._
~World.~--The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who
feel.--_Horace Walpole._