Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.