Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. Mary Astell Read Quote
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private. Mary Astell Read Quote
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. Mary Astell Read Quote
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. Mary Astell Read Quote
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. Mary Astell Read Quote
To 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 Astell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To plead for the Oppress’d and to defend the Weak seem’d to me a generous undertaking; for tho’ it may be secure, ’tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. Mary Astell Read Quote
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled. Mary Astell Read Quote
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? Mary Astell Read Quote
