History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.