I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.