“A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.”
Genesis II, 18 (p. 9)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report
“Distant or near,
in joy or in sorrow,
each in the other
sees his true helper
to brotherly freedom.”
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
Lord Fisher and his Biographer, Great Contempories (1947), Churchill, John Gardner (Liverpool), 3rd Ed. p. 265.
Paraphrased again in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 73.
Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 23 (p. 176)
Context: Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.
The Relapse, Act III, sc. ii (1697)
The Mahābhāṣya
Ainsi est-il du cœur de l’homme. Le besoin de faire œuvre qui dure, qui lui survive, est le signe de sa supériorité sur tout ce qui vit ici-bas. C’est ce qui a fondé sa domination, et c’est ce qui la justifie dans le monde entier.
Part III, ch. XV
The Mysterious Island (1874)
“The sole purpose of man on earth is to manifest his Creator. He has no other purpose.”
Source: A New Concept of the Universe (1953), p. 139