Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
Mary WollstonecraftNothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
Mary WollstonecraftLove from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopherโs stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft