It Is With Considerable Difficulty

Satan Has His Companions, Fellow-devils, To Admire And Encourage Him; But I Am Solitary And Detested.

Everything Must Have A Beginning ... And That Beginning Must Be Linked To Something That Went Before.

The Air Of Fashion, Which Many Young People Are So Eager To Attain, Always Strikes Me Like The Studied Attitudes Of Some Modern Prints, Copied With Tasteless Servility After The Antigue; The Soul Is Left Out, And None Of The Parts Are Tied Together By What May Properly Be Termed Character.

Hateful Day When I Received Life!' I Exclaimed In Agony. 'accursed Creator! Why Did You Form A Monster So Hideous That Even You Turned From Me In Disgust? God, In Pity, Made Man Beautiful And Alluring, After His Own Image; But My Form Is A Filthy Type Of Yours, More Horrid Even From The Very Resemlance. Satan Had His Companions, Fellow-devils, To Admire And Encourage Him; But I Am Solitary And Abhorred.' - Frankenstein

Curiosity, Earnest Research To Learn The Hidden Laws Of Nature, Gladness Akin To Rapture, As They Unfolded To Me, Are Among The Earliest Sensations I Can Remember.