What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. - Mary Shelley

I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me—"How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"

I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.