Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Justice quotes.

"The beginning is always today."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Happiness quotes.

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Life quotes.

"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley