The modern masters promise very little

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

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

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.