"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" - Mary Wollstonecraft

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.

How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?

"My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed, "Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.