The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

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

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