Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.