How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions? - Mary Wollstonecraft

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

"I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?"

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