325 Quotes by Mary Shelley

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food . . .

Man, I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

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.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind.