Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.