is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty ow… - Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.

أرى الهناء في كل مكان ، وأجدني وحدي المحروم منه بلا أمل في نيله . لقد كنتُ خَيّراً وطيبا ، ولكن التعاسة جعلت مني شيطانا . أسعدني وأنا أعود فاضلاً مرة أخرى

صدقني يا فرانكشتاين ، لقد كنت خَيّراً . وكانت روحي تتألق بحب الإنسانية ولكن ، ألست وحيداً الآن ، وحيداً إلى حد التعاسة ؟

I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.