Quotes

Frankenstein reveals, "I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe." 

The being explains his need for a hovel, saying, "Here then I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man."

When the monster learns that the most respected men in society have wealth and influence, he laments, "I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.."