Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth."

"How do the dead live with us, if not through the memory of the living?"

"I write what I feel, and I feel truly."

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort."

"Life and death are balanced on a knife's edge."

"What a wonderful subject you have given me to think upon."

"I have already inhabited a paradise."

"Affection is the very heart and soul of virtue."

"The human spirit is noble and powerful."

"How strange it is to wish to accomplish so much in so little time."

"The greatest gift we can offer is our authentic selves."

"Men are not monsters by nature; something makes them so."

"The bonds of love are stronger than any physical chain."

"To be productive, one must first understand oneself."

"Hope is the companion of the brave."

"Every human heart holds infinite depths."

"Friendship is the mirror of the soul."

"I was not made for a tranquil life."

"The imagination can conjure the most marvellous things."

"Virtue lies not in abstinence but in wisdom."

"We are all children of circumstance."

"The power of the mind surpasses all earthly limits."

"To love is to grant oneself the most profound freedom."

"Education is the foundation upon which all progress stands."

"The heart knows truths the mind cannot articulate."

"Beauty resides in the authentic expression of the soul."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"What we refuse to acknowledge often destroys us."

"The night is the domain of imagination and reflection."