| 1. | I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 2. | Philosophy should be an energy it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of man. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |