Tributes to Woman.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 932, 10 January 1890, Page 4

Tributes to Woman.

the testimony borne by poets, statesmen, AND PHILOSOPHERS. Confucious —Woman is the masterpiece. Herder—Woman is the crown of creation. Voltaire—Women teach us repose, oivility, and dignity. Buskin —Shakespeare has no heroes—he has only heroines. John Quincy Adams—All that I am my mother made me. Whittier—lf woman lost us Eden she alone can restore it. Bulwer—To a gentleman every woman is a Indy in right of her S9X. Lamartine —There is a woman at the beginning of all grqat things. E. S. Barrett—Woman is last at the cross and earliest at the grave. Gladstone—Woman is the most perfect when the most womanly. Sandi —A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. Biohter —No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. N. P. Willis—The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded welcome of a wife. Heine—Handsome women without religion are like flowers without perfume. Beecher—Women are a new race, re. created since the world received Chris, tianity. Voltaire—All the reasonings of a man are not worth one sentiment of a woman. Leopold Schefer —But one thing on earth is better than a wife —that is a mother. Michelet—Woman is the Sunday of man ; not his repose only, but his joy—the salt of his life, Luther—Earth has nothing more tender than a woman’s heart when it is the abode of pity. Shakespeare—For where is any author in the world who teaches such beauty as a woman’s eyes? Margaret Fuller Ossoli—Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it. Louis Desnoyers—A woman may be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly, and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous.