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

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

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

Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

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

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.