Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.