James Hogg

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction