May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

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

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

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.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.