There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep!

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

My husband and I are pretty good at leaving money alone until we need it for what we've saved it for.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.