Mary Shelley — "Sorrow only increased with knowledge."

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who a…"

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

"I was born with a love for the marvellous."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."