"Everybody has so good an opinion of their own understanding as to think their own way the best"
(Mary Astell)
"If a man wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
"But, alas! what poor woman is ever taught that she should have a higher design than to get her a husband"
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he will shall end in certainties"
"although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it"
"if a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world"