Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

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.

One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.