I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

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.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.