Part 105

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.

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.--Lamartine.

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.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.--Goldsmith.

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.--Chamfort.

Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.--Shakespeare.

~Worship.~--Worship as though the Deity were present. If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshiped not.--Confucius.

~Writing.~--Writing, after all, is a cold and coarse interpreter of thought. How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words! Man made language and God the genius.--Bulwer-Lytton.

We must write as Homer wrote, not what he wrote.--Théophile Vian.

~Wrong.~--There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.--George Eliot.

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.--Cowper.

~Youth.~--The canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before their buttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious blastments are most imminent.--Shakespeare.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.--Moore.

In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before.--Goethe.

Too young for woe, though not for tears.--Washington Irving.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.--Victor Hugo.

O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.--Jules Janin.