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

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

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

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.

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

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.