People/A
The quotations of
American novelist
1832–1888
10 quotes, most often on Love, Genius and Women.
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.