If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.