Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.