When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.