Soul, May, Mind, Nothing Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Wollstonecraft
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? - Mary Wollstonecraft
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. - Mary Wollstonecraft
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Mary Wollstonecraft
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. - Georges Bernanos
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. - Grover Cleveland
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. - Plato