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.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

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

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.