But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.