Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

A truce to philosophy!"”Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.