"I have always been attracted to the abnormal."

"I am a very superstitious man."

"Your Church has in this matter been far more thorough than the Protestant. It has never denied Ars Magica, though it has denounced it'."

"The soul is a living being, and it never dies."

"I shall write for my own people, whether in love or hate of them matters little, probably I shall not know which it is."