C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Satan

Satan, as a master, is bad; his work much worse; and his wages worst of all.

Fuller.

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Milton.

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,
Stirr’d up with envy and revenge, deceiv’d
The mother of mankind.

Milton.

If Satan doth fetter us, ’tis indifferent to him whether it be by a cable or by hair; nay, perhaps the smallest sins are his greatest stratagems.

Fuller.

Meanwhile the adversary of God and man,
Satan, with thoughts inflam’d of highest design,
Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of Hell
Explores his solitary flight; sometimes
He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the left:
Now shaves with level wing the deep; then soars
Up to the fiery concave, tow’ring high.

Milton.

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