"When I am assailed by temptation, I merely eat and drink more, and laugh and joke, and so kill the thoughts."

"I am but a man prone to let himself be swept off his feet by society, drunkenness, and the movements of the flesh."

"I confess that I am a man, and that I have erred."

"Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more."

"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its posse…"