Mary Shelley II

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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

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

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

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 aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!