Mary Shelley

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

The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

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

All men hate the wretched. 

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea.

Mary Shelley