For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Mary Astell. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
Mary AstellThe Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary AstellWomen need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Mary Astell