O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.