But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Smoke and fire go together always.

But all these, at one point or another, somewhere link on intimately with human life and human experience. They stir comprehensible, even if alarming, emotions. They tend on the whole to exalt.

For only to the few whose inner senses have been quickened, perchance by some strange suffering in the depths, or by a natural temperament bequeathed from a remote past, comes the knowledge, not too welcome, that this greater world lies ever at their elbow, and that any moment a chance combination of moods and forces may invite them to cross the shifting frontier.

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance;.

It is the same with all the emotions,” he said. “The experiences of others never give a complete account. Until a man has deliberately turned and faced for himself the fiends that chase him down the years, he has no knowledge of what they really are, or of what they can do.

Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own.

Love is known only by feeling it,” she said, her voice deepening a little. “Behind the form you feel the person loved. The process is an evocation, pure and simple. An arduous ceremonial, involving worship and devotional preparation, is the means. It is a difficult ritual – the only one acknowledged by the world as still effectual. Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.