Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Unabridged and Complete Edition

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.