Is there such a feeling as love at first sight? And if there be, in what does its nature differ from love founded in long observation and slow growth… - Mary Wollstonecraft

A standing army, for instance, is incompatible with freedom; because subordination and rigour are the very sinews of military discipline; and despotism is necessary to give vigour to enterprise that one will directs. A spirit inspired by romantic notions of honour, a kind of morality founded on the fashion of the age, can only be felt by a few officers, whilst the main body must be moved by command, like the waves of the sea; for the strong wind of authority pushes the crowd of subalterns forward, they scarcely know or care why, with headlong fury.

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 ؟

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.