If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

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.

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

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!

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.