He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
Mary AstellFor certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Mary AstellTo all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
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 Astell