Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

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

Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

I am malicious because I am miserable

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

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