"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."

"Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul b…"

"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"

"My dreams were at first replete with the terrible circumstances of my creation and murder."

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race."