Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBut he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyEven the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyNone but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyI collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley