It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyIt was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyOne man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley