It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God.

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan