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- The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. — Michel de Montaigne
- The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. — Mohandas Gandhi
- Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley