He didn't seem to know any way to do a person a favor except by killing him or making a lunatic out of him.

I apologized, as well as I could; but privately I did not think much of his processes--at that time.
Satan was accustomed to say that our race lived a life of continuous and uninterrupted self-deception.

It duped itself from cradle to grave with shams and delusions which it mistook for realities, and this made its entire life a sham.

Of the score of fine qualities which it imagined it had and was vain of, it really possessed hardly one.

It regarded itself as gold, and was only brass.