Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my w… - Mary Wollstonecraft

I saw- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together... Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.