in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
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Quotes by Mary Shelley
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed, my dearest pleasure when free.
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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.
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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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A truce to philosophy! Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.
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An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery, proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.
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I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me: "How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"
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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person, all my old friends are gone and my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.
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Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.
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We have had over-much of war: I have seen too many of the noble, young, and gallant, fall by the sword. Brute force has had its day; now let us try what policy can do.
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