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“but yet I know him to be so puffed up with spiritual pride, that I believe he weens every one of his actions justified before God, and instead of having stings of conscience for these, he takes great merit to himself in having effected them.”

“If a demon could inherit flesh and blood, that youth is precisely such a being as I could conceive that demon to be. The depth and the malignity of his eye is hideous. His breath is like the airs from a charnel house, and his flesh seems fading from his bones, as if the worm that never dies were gnawing it away already?”

"We could easily put an end to thy sinful life, but our hands shall be free of thy blood.”

“We have nothing on earth but our senses to depend upon: if these deceive us, what are we to do.”

“My crimes have been great, but my sufferings have been greater.”

“the guilty must not always be suffered to escape, or what a world must we be doomed to live in!”

“It is the controller of Nature alone, that can bring light out of darkness, and order out of confusion.”

'some would despise, but I pity thee. If thou art not a limb of Satan, I never saw one.'

“— Then, wretch, confess that the devil was that friend who told you I was here, and who came here with you? None else could possibly know of my being here.
— Ah! how little you know of him! Would you argue that there is neither man nor spirit endowed with so much foresight as to deduce natural conclusions from previous actions and incidents but the devil?”