A man cannot do good before he is made good.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.