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
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. - Mary Wollstonecraft
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? - Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. - Mary Wollstonecraft
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. - Mary Wollstonecraft
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. - 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