Letters, Walton, _in continuation._ Quotes — Frankenstein

"Are you mad, my friend?" said he. "Or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own."

What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin! He seems to feel his own worth and the greatness of his fall.

I am surrounded by mountains of ice which admit of no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel.

Can any man be to me as Clerval was, or any woman another Elizabeth?

What do you mean? What do you demand of your captain? Are you, then, so easily turned from your design? Did you not call this a glorious expedition?

"Since you have preserved my narration," said he, "I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity."

Do so, if you will; but I will not. You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by Heaven, and I dare not.