Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

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

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.