You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

Employment is the biggest form of slavery

Every living object has to change every moment just to live.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

This book is written in blood.Is it written entirely in blood?No, some of it is written in tears. Are the blood and tears all mine?Yes, they have been in the past, but the future is a different ma

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.