So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

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

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.