Mary Shelley — "How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of l…"

"We are not formed for enjoyment; and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasurable emotion, disappointment is the never-failing pilot of our life's bark, and ruthlessly carries us on to t…"

"White paper - wilt thou be my confident? I will trust thee fully, for none shall see what I write."

"I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly."

"Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; …"

"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature."