"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can elevate man to the divine."

"The day will come when I shall be able to speak to God without an interpreter."

"What is good must be good already in the first draft."

"I would rather be a tree than a man."

"May God continue to give you the strength to build your temple of Isis, and may the pure fire there devour all your afflictions so that you may awake like a new phoenix."