The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

Experience makes us wise.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

The worst old age is that of the mind.