“Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers.”

“You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”

“But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. 'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

“It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had all the inn upon our hands, and were kept busy enough without paying much regard to our unpleasant guest.”

“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.”

“-I am not sure whether he's sane.-If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.”

“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”