Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The beginning is always today.

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 tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley