Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.


A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects (ed. 1796)

Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's...

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's...

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's...

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's...