There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
Light is the shadow of God.
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.