Ladies I have known

It is one of the great privileges of my life to have known a good many ladies. I mean ladies in the fullest and truest sense of the word. Not crude and trashy individuals, but also not snooty and conceited. Gracious, kind, faithful, hospitable, diligent, with an inherent dignity that keeps them from being commonplace, even though they are from the common people. May God prosper them in the midst of this untoward generation.