"The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet."

"The only thing that has been of real use to me is the study of the occult."

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is hard enough."

"The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write."