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

"My whole life has been a preparation for some great spiritual event."

"I have been in love with a ghost for many years."

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."