Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft, (Apr 27 1759-1797), English writer, women's rights activist; She was an early advocate of women's rights; wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792; mother of Mary Shelly; wife of William Godwin.