"Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it." ― E. W. Howe Topic(s): Women More From E. W. Howe "There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope." "Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better." "Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them." More In Women "I don’t think that women need to smell interesting."― Lady Gaga "To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"― Christopher Hitchens "Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."― Ambrose Bierce