“Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm whcih… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine... gentle yet corageous, possesed,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, but incontestable, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
