"It plagues them, or they wouldn't put me here."
"It is not because you plague them; it is because that you injure others that you are put here."
The spirit of revenge, upon some one, for the punishment they were receiving, was the one that was uppermost in their minds. Revenge against those whom they had injured in the beginning; against those who made the laws, or the officials who executed them. Their idea of revenge was to commit the same deed again.
"Don't you all feel ashamed of what you have done," I asked, "when you think of it?"
"Yes, we do, that's the truth," said Annie O'Brien. "But's of no use. Nobody will ever think anything of us again, after we have been in here, and its no use to try to do any better; and we just do as bad as we can."
"But the All-seeing Eye is watching you, and, if you try to do right, will help you along. And in the life to come, where all hearts are known, you will get your recompense. Then, if you are really trying to do right you will be thought of and loved."
"It is a great while to wait for that, and it is hard."
"I know it is hard; but it cannot be long. It may be that we go at any moment; and then, it is forever and forever."
"If we could only keep that in our minds—but we forget it."
"You cannot of yourself. But if you ask the Father of your spirit to take your thoughts under his control, He will, and help you to think."