Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. View more images...

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. View more images...

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. View more images...