There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.