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.
... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a moment to lose, but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, "Now is the time! Save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
The last man! Yes, I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.
