The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Quotes

“With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself

“…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“It is the controller of Nature alone that can bring light out of darkness, and order out of confusion. Who is he that causeth the mole, from his secret path of darkness, to throw up the gem, the gold, and the precious ore? The same that from the mouths of babes and sucklings can extract the perfection of praise, and who can make the most abject of his creatures instrumental in bringing the most hidden truths to light.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“Alas, what short-sighted improvident creatures we are, all of us; and how often does the evening cup of joy lead to sorrow in the morning!”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“Female economy will do a great deal my lord: but it cannot turn a small income into a large one.”
― Jane Austen, The Watsons

“I am wedded to you so closely, that I feel as if I were the same person. Our essences are one, our bodies and spirits being united, so, that I am drawn towards you as by magnetism, and wherever you are, there must my presence be with you.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“As he approached the swire at the head of the dell – that little delightful verge from which in one moment the eastern limits and shores of the Lothian arise on the view, - as he approached it, I say, and a little space from the height, he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow. He was struck motionless at the view of the lovely vision; for it so chanced that he had never seen the same appearance before, though common at early morn. But he soon perceived the cause of the phenomenon, and that it proceeded from the rays of the sun from a pure unclouded morning sky striking upon this dense vapour which refracted them. But the better all the works of nature are understood, the more they will be ever admired. That was a scene that would have entranced the man of science with delight, but which the uninitiated and sordid man would have regarded less than the mole rearing up his hill in silence and in darkness.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“If you would argue until the end of life, the infallible creature must alone be right.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“there not enough of merit in the blood of Jesus to save thousands of worlds, if it was for these worlds that he died? Now,”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

“The good parson again blessed her, and went away. She took leave of him with tears in her eyes, entreating him often to visit her in that heathen land of the Amorite, the Hittite, and the Girgashite: to which he assented, on many solemn and qualifying conditions—and then the comely bride retired to her chamber to pray.”
― James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner