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

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

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

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.