“His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.”

“FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!”

“Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.”

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness.”

“Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.”

“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”

“Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.”