Today is the birthday of Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851), novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. She is best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)."Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
— Mary Shelley
"It 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 Shelley
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
— Mary Shelley
"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
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
— Mary Shelley
"The beginning is always today."
— Mary Shelley
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