What is to give light must endure burning.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
An idea is salvation by imagination
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.