“I must love and be loved. I must feel that my dear and chosen friends are happier through me. When I have wandered out of myself in my endeavour to shed pleasure around, I must again return laden with the gathered sweets on which I feed and live. Permit this to be, unblamed—permit a heart whose sufferings have been, and are, so many and so bitter, to reap what joy it can from the necessity it feels to be sympathized with—to love.” LoveHappinessSufferingFriendshipGriefMourning Book:The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance Source: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance
“Excellent friend! how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses” Friendship Book:Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Source: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books. to me they stood in the place of an active career, of ambition, and those palpable excitements necessary to the multitude. The collation of philosophical opinions, the study of historical facts, the acquirement of languages, were at once my recreation, and the serious aim of my life.” LoveWarFriendshipAmbitionBetrayalParliamentGreeceTurkeyJealouslyArcadian Book:The Last Man Source: The Last Man