The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.