I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.