He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

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

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

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

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.