Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
Mary WollstonecraftWhat, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?
Mary WollstonecraftWe cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
Mary WollstonecraftThe being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft