You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

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.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

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!