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

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

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

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

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

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

Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.