We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.