But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm..

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains..

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings..

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunte….

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd..

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must….

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memo….

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appeara….

To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, t….

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him..

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath….

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite..

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of o….

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but t….

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared..

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed.