Today is the birthday of Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851), novelist. She is best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)."Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye..." - Mary Shelley
"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour — but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore." - Mary Shelley
"I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling." - Mary Shelley
"Live, and be happy, and make others so." - Mary Shelley
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