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

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

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

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein