It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

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