“Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.”

Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love

The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.

The beginning is always today.

It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.

If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.

I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

We must all be in love once in our lives.

The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.

Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

No matter how many things you gather in life, there is no container service in the end. Time to move from accumulation to true enhancement of life.

Transcendence Is Very Easy When You Are In a State of Love or Devotion.

You do not just wake up and become the butterfly -Growth is a process.

If you learn to laugh at your own stupidity, all your rubbish will turn into manure very fast. And manure is good for growth.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.