"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed." 

An Excerpt from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

I really liked this part, and I wanted to share it with you cheeses. I have to read the book for Summer Homework, but I'm really loving it so far. Call me crazy, but I find a sort of familiarity and peace in reading the tale of a broken man. I don't know why, it just clicks for me. The same way I love Stephen King and his horror books.