Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other's power.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than aboutcomforting the people they leave behind.

We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

Space tourism is God's way of telling you you aren't spending enough on lap dances, baccarat and cocaine.

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.