“The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.”

“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”

“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.”

“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115”

“I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.”