a man can pay her a higher compliment than to wish to make her his own.
For though

Woman thinks man her ultimate aim and desire, Nature knows that man is
but the stepping-stone to the child. In the end woman agrees with
Nature. We may go farther, and say

Women are nearer the eternal laws than are men. Men govern themselves by
the laws they themselves make. Women are lawless. Laws are for the
temporal, the fleeting; for a given individual in a given society; for a
particular race in a particular clime. Such laws are obeyed by women
only under compulsion. They, more far-seeing than men, instinctively
peer far beyond the ephemeral rules manufactured by men, into the realm
of laws eternal and immutable; these she obeys implicitly,
unquestioningly--much to man's amazement--and, it may be, his
mortification; for he sees that she is freer than he. This is why,

For the man she truly loves a woman will sacrifice everything
--everything. The same generous sentiment cannot by any means be
attributed to man.

* * *

Both the wise man and the wise woman--but here I am reminded of the
recipe for hare soup.

* * *

Between the sexes there is in reality but one link--the link amatory.
And