My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

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

Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

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

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!