Mary Shelley — "The beginning is always today."

"The human senses are imperfect. They cannot bear the light of truth."

"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason."

"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…"

"Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul b…"

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."