All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother.—­Steele.

I have always said it—­nature meant to make woman its master-piece.  —­Lessing.

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave.  To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.—­St. Pierre.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,—­compassion and enthusiasm.  By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.—­Lamartine.

The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red.—­Holmes.

There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than by the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle encouragement of amiable and sensible women.—­ROMILLY.

Words.—­A soft answer turneth away wrath:  but grievous words stir up anger.—­Proverbs 15:1.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go. 
—­Shakespeare.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.—­Cicero.

Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense. 
—­Earl of Roscommon.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?—­Job 38:2.

It is with a word as with an arrow:  the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.—­Abdel-Kader.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.—­H.W.  Shaw.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth.  I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.—­Hazlitt.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.—­Proverbs 16:24.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.—­H.W.  Shaw.

What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken can never be recalled.—­Roscommon.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.—­Carlyle.

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.—­M.M.  Brewster.

“Words, words, words!” says Hamlet, disparagingly.  But God preserve us from the destructive power of words!  There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords.  There are words whose sting can remain through a whole life!—­Mary Howitt.