A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections.

She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

"The brain-women," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, "never interest us like the heart-women." [205] Men are often so wearied with themselves, that they are rather predisposed to admire qualities and tastes in others different from their own.

"If I were suddenly asked," says Mr.Helps, "to give a proof of the goodness of God to us, I think I should say that it is most manifest in the exquisite difference He has made between the souls of men and women, so as to create the possibility of the most comforting and charming companionship that the mind of man can imagine." [206] But though no man may love a woman for her understanding, it is not the less necessary for her to cultivate it on that account.

[207] There may be difference in character, but there must be harmony of mind and sentiment--two intelligent souls as well as two loving hearts: "Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life." There are few men who have written so wisely on the subject of marriage as Sir Henry Taylor.