Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.