A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

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.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.