But if his home is an ill-regulated
one, where no links of affection extend throughout the family--
whose former domestics (and he has had more of them than he can
well remember) look back upon their sojourn with him as one
unblessed by kind words or deeds--I contend that that man has not
been successful. Whatever good fortune he may have in the world,
it is to be remembered that he has always left one important
fortress untaken behind him. That man's life does not surely read
well whose benevolence has found no central home. It may have
sent forth rays in various directions, but there should have been
a warm focus of love--that home-nest which is formed round a good
mans heart."--CLAIMS OF LABOUR.
(5) "The red heart sends all its instincts up to the white brain, to
be analysed, chilled, blanched, and so become pure reason--which
is just exactly what we do NOT want of women as women. The
current should run the other way. The nice, calm, cold thought,
which, in women, shapes itself so rapidly that they hardly know it
as thought, should always travel to the lips VIA the heart.
It does so in those women whom all love and admire....
The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women;
white roses please less than red."--THE PROFESSOR AT THE
BREAKFAST TABLE, by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(6) 'The War and General Culture,' 1871.
(7) "Depend upon it, men set more value on the cultivated minds than
on the accomplishments of women, which they are rarely able to
appreciate.
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