Mary Shelley — "The human mind is a wonderful thing; it can create and destroy, it can love and …"

"I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an…"

"What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them."

"The beginning is always today."

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

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, kinder, better than ourselves, do not take us in hand."