“Friend, good!”

“Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. ”

“... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

“Evil thenceforth became my good.”

“If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.”

“I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.”