In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.