Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin. - Mary Wollstonecraft

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

To be a good mother — a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.