Thoughts on the Education of Daughters Quotes

“... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“To have in this uncertain world some stay, which cannot be undermined, is of the utmost consequence; and this stay it is, which gives that dignity to the manners, which shows that a person does not depend on mere human applause for comfort and satisfaction.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“Dissipation leads to poverty, which cannot be patiently borne by those who have lived on the vain applause of others, on account of outward advantages; these were the things they imagined of most consequence, and of course they are tormented with false shame, when by a reverse of fortune they are deprived by them.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“Forbearance and liberality of sentiment are the virtues of maturity.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“A benevolent mind often suffers more than the object it commiserates, and will bear an inconvenience itself to shelter another from it. It makes allowance for failings though it longs to meet perfection, which it seems formed to adore. The Author of all good continually calls himself, a God long-suffering; and those most resemble him who practice forbearance.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“Did our feelings and reason always coincide, our passage through this world could not justly be termed a warfare, and faith would no longer be a virtue. It is our preferring the things that are not seen, to those which are, that proves us to be the heirs of promise.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“The mind, too, should be soothed . . . whenever it sinks, soothing is, better than reasoning. The slackened nerves are not to be braced by words. When a mind is worried by care, or oppressed by sorrow, it cannot in a moment grow tranquil, and attend to the voice of reason.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“There are quite as many male coquets as female, and they are far more pernicious pests to society, as their sphere of action is larger, and they are less exposed to the censure of the world.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“Resentment, indeed, may and will be felt occasionally by the best of human beings; yet humility will soon conquer it, and convert scorn and contempt into pity, and drive out that hasty pride which is always guarding Self from insult; which takes fire on the most trivial occasions, and which will not admit of a superior, or even an equal.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“She who submits, without conviction, to a parent or husband, will as unreasonably tyrannise over her servants; for slavish fear and tyranny go together.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“Simplicity of Dress, and unaffected manners, should go together. They demand respect, and will be admired by people of taste, even when love is out of the question.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

“To have this uncertain world some stay, which cannot be undermined, is of the utmost consequence; and this stay it is, which gives that dignity to the manners, which shews that a person does not depend on mere human applause for comfort and satisfaction.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters