In Measuring A Circle, One Begins Anywhere.

The Ideal State Is Meekness, Or Humility, Or The Semi-invalid State Of The Old. Year After Year I Am Becoming Nobler And Nobler. If I Can Live To Be Decrepit Enough, I Shall Be A Saint.

When We Come Upon Assurances That A Mystery Has Been Solved, We Go On Investigating.

I Have Taken The Stand That Nobody Can Be Always Wrong, But It Does Seem To Me That I Have Approximated So Highly That I Am Nothing Short Of A Negative Genius.

[wise Men] Have Tried To Understand Our State Of Being, By Grasping At Its Stars, Or Its Arts, Or Its Economics. But, If There Is An Underlying Oneness Of All Things, It Does Not Matter Where We Begin, Whether With Stars, Or Laws Of Supply And Demand, Or Frogs, Or Napoleon Bonaparte. One Measures A Circle, Beginning Anywhere.

Against All The Opposition In The World, I Make This Statement - That Once I Knew A Magician. I Was A Witness Of A Performance That May Some Day Be Considered Understandable, But That, In These Primitive Times, So Transcends What Is Said To Be The Known That It Is What I Mean By Magic.