Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes

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What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

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

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

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

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

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