Tessa

“I'm sure you feel this; I see the change in you, and you'll find it in me; I shall miss my boy, but I shall love the man as much, and admire him more, because he means to be what I hoped he would.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

“I felt angry at first, and then I didn't care, for a governess is as good as a clerk, and I've got sense, if I haven't style, which is more than some people have, judging from the remarks of the elegant beings who clattered away, smoking like bad chimneys. I hate ordinary people!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women