Nature is very kind to all children, and to all mothers that are true to her.--_Frederick the Great._
She is of stately figure;--of beautiful still countenance.--A completeness, a decision is in this fair female figure; by energy she means the spirit that will prompt one to sacrifice himself for his country.--_French Revolution._
A clever, high-mannered, massive-minded old lady; admirable as a finished piece of social art, but hardly otherwise much.--_Reminiscences._
Who can account for the taste of females?--_The Diamond Necklace._
A Beauty, but over light-headed: a Booby who had fine legs. How these first courted, billed, and cooed, according to nature; then pouted, fretted, grew utterly enraged and blew one another up.--_Boswell's Life of Johnson._
With delicate female tact, with fine female stoicism too, keeping all things within limits.--_Frederick the Great._
A true-hearted, sharp-witted sister.--_Essay of Diderot._
A graceful, brave, and amiable woman;--her choicest gift an open eye and heart.--_Oliver Cromwell._
Every graceful and generous quality of womanhood harmoniously blended in her nature.--_Life of Schiller._
She is a fair vision, the _beau idéal_ of a poet's first mistress.--_Life of Schiller._
Heaven, though severe, is _not_ unkind; Heaven is kind, as a noble mother; as that Spartan mother, saying while she gave her son his shield, "With it, my son, or upon it!"--Complain not; the very Spartans did not complain.--_Past and Present_.
All her face, all her person, breathed an ineffable love and kindness. She had always been predestined to gentleness, but Faith, Hope, and Charity, those three virtues that softly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to sanctity. Nature had only made her a lamb, and religion had made her an angel.--_Les Misérables._
She was the very embodiment of joy as she went to and fro in the house; she brought with her a perpetual spring.--_Toilers of the Sea_.
Her entire person was simplicity, ingenuousness, whiteness, candor, and radiance, and it might have been said of her that she was transparent. She produced a sensation of April and daybreak, and she had dew in her eyes. She was the condensation of the light of dawn in a woman's form.--_Les Misérables._