There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.

There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

A bully is a coward turned inside out.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 When law and sin ceased to be distinguished in Israel, compassion induced Him to appoint judges again. If these are gifted with heroic qualities, to vanquish the oppressors of Israel, it is nevertheless not this heroism that forms their principal characteristic. That consists in judging. They restore... the authority of the law. For this reason, God raises up judges, not princes. The title sets forth both their work and the occasion of their appointment. Israel is free and powerful when its law is observed throughout the land.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Lord give me an answer, or give me the patience to wait for one, just do it now please!

And if you mean to profit, learn to please.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Be careful or you'll poke your eye out!

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said That even there was intercourse Between the living and the dead.