Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
The creature threatens Victor after Victor destroys the female companion he had begun to make. The sentence reads with a semicolon, “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”, in the revised 1831 edition; this is the 1818 wording.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.