Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"How fickle are the pleasures of this world."

"Some weight always rests upon the heart."

"The divine right to govern was not conferred for the benefit of the governed."

"My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of expression were inadequate."

"Surely it is madness to trust the uncontrolled direction of Nature's phenomena to human beings."

"What is the human heart but a museum of wonders."

"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought."

"Sorrow and love are intermingled."

"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning out to the advantage of mankind."

"To be a great author, one must feel deeply and think profoundly."

"Time is the supreme judge of all human creations."

"The most fundamental form of freedom is freedom of thought."

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"The study of nature produces a kind of enthusiasm that enriches life."

"A natural inclination has ever led me to seek for knowledge."

"How strange it is that the human mind is capable of such extremes."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Solitude is the nurse of wisdom."

"I am the parent of the creature; he is my creator."

"The greatest gift of nature is the capacity to feel."

"We are bound in an eternal chain to the consequences of our actions."

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

"How wonderful it is that no time need be lost in making a beginning."

"The sublime is always accompanied by a kind of terror."

"Trust is the foundation of all relationships."

"In solitude I find strength."

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."

"The path of knowledge is strewn with thorns."