John Milton Quote

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit.

Paradise Regain'd... To which is added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of Education, etc (ed. 1752)