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Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniquity. “What shall a man gain if he has the whole world and lose his soul,” (Matt. 16: v. 26) - but for a notorious name, the ethereal shadow of a career, and a brief life of fleeting pleasure with no true peace? This was the blackest and most captivating tragedy of all, few could have remained indiffe
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― Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1
― Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1
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I am going to make you what you may perhaps consider rather a singular proposition. It is this, that if you don’t like me, say so at once, and we will part now, before we have time to know anything more of each other, and I will endeavour not to cross your path again unless you seek me out. But if on the contrary, you do like me,—if you find something in my humour or turn of mind congenial to your own disposition, give me your promise that you will be my friend and comrade for a while, say for a
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― The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
― The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
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