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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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