“And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”
“And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!”
“Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.”
“God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good.”
“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. ”
“I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.”