Mary Shelley Consist Quotations

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the 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.