Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
TRIRuTEs TO WOMEN. .
Gems from the Poets, Preachers and
Seges of Many Lands.

| Gems from the Poets, Preachers and
| ssges OF Many Lands.
Confucius-W oman is the master
piece.
Herder-Woman is the crown OF
creation.
Voltaire-Women teach US repose,
civility and dignity.
Leasing Nature meant to make
woman its masterpiece.
John Quincy Adams-All that l am
my mother made me.
Ruskin-Shakespeare has no heroes
he has only heroines
Whittier-If woman lost US Eden,
such as she alone restore it.
Boucicault-I wish Adam had died
with all his ribs in his body.
Gladstone Woman is the most per-
feet when the most womanly.
f. S. Barrett-Woma1 is last at tho
cross and earliest at the grave.
Bulwer-To a gentleman every
woman is lady in right OF her sex.
Saadi-A handsome woman is a
jewel; good woman is treasure.
Lamartine-There is a woman at tho
beginning of all great things.
Rochefoucauld-A fashionable wo-
man is always in love with herself.
Cowley-What is a woman? Only
one of natures agreeable plumbers.
Richter-No man can either live
piously or die righteOusly without a
wife.
Cervantes-All women are good
good for nothing, or good for some
thing.
Victor Hugo-Women detest the
serpent through professional jealousy.
n. p. WILTSHIRE sweetest thing in
life is the unclouded welcome of wife
Francis IA woman changes oft;
who trusts her is the softest of the soft.
Subsequently, was never a
fair woman but she mouths in glass.
George Eliot-A passionate woman's
love is always overshadowed by her
fear.
Heine-Handsome women without
religion are like flowers without per-
fume.
Voltaire-All the reasonings of men
are not worth one sentiment of wo-
man.
Leopold Schefer-But one thing on
earth is better than wife-that is the
mother.
Beecher-Women are a new race,
recreated since the world received
Christianity.
Cervantes- Between a woman s''yes"
and mo- would not venture to stick
pin.
Luther-Earth has nothing more
tender than woman's heart when it is
the abode of pity.
Shakespeare For where is any
author in the world teaches such beauty
as woman's eyes?
Michelet-Woman is the Sunday of
man; not his repose only, but his JOY,
the salt of his life.
Margaret Fuller Ossili-Woman is
born for love. and it is impossible to
Louis Desnoyers-A woman may be
ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly
and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous.
Lord Lansdale-If the whole world
were put into one scale and my mother
into the other. the world would kick
the beam.
Malherbe-There are only two beau
tiful things in the world-women and
roses, and only two sweet things
women and melons.
Bulwer Lytton-O, woman! in ordi-
nary cases so mere a mortal, how in
the great and rare events OF life dost
thou swell into the angels!
Saville-Women have more strength
in their looks than we have in our laws
and more power by their tears than
we have by our arguments.
Emerson-A beautiful woman is a
practical poet, tanning her savage mate,
planting tenderness. hope and elo-
quence in all whom she approaches.
Anna Cora Mowatt - Misfortune
sprinkles ashes on the heart of the
woman and brings forth germs of
strength of which she herself has no
conscious possession.
Undergraduates all women will
give sympathizing hearing to men
who are in love. Be they ever so old.
they grow young again in that CONVEX
sation and renew their own early time.
Men are not quite so generous.