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

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

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

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!

No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John

Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.

I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.

There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.