Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.