Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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.

I am fearless and therefore powerful.

my feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair.

Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer but the hangman who would gain his fee?

avoid ambition,

This is the real message of the book

You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.

Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.

If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.