How many things are we upon the brink of discovering if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries - Mary Wollstonecraft

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. - Victor Frankenstein.

When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.