The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

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!