A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley More Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley More Quotes From Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley make-me-happymiserymade The beginning is always today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Virtue can only flourish among equals. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
