“There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.”

“The devil…the prowde spirit…cannot endure to be mocked.”

“People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.”

“People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are brakes on the wheels of progress.”

“Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.”

“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”

“Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister spirit, come away!”

“Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest”

“And yet this might not necessarily involve the conversion of the Trinity into a Quaternity. If… in Greek, spirit, instead of being neuter had been feminine, who can say that the Virgin Mary might not already have become an incarnation or humanization of the Holy Spirit? …And thus a dogmatic evolution would have been effected parallel to that of the divinization of Jesus, the Son, and his identification with the Word.”

“The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.”