At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Paula R. Feldman, Diana Scott-Kilvert (1987). “The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1822-1844”, Oxford University Press, USA
