A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

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

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep!

The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

Kindness is our religion.

I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.