Every man and every woman is a star.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

The key of joy is disobedience.

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.