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

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.