Alan Victor Willis

“If you would understand the true secrets of Alchemy, you must study the works of the Masters with patience and assiduity. Every word is often an enigma; and to him who reads in haste, the whole will seem absurd. Even when they seem to teach that the Great Work is the purification of the Soul, and so deal only with morals, they most conceal their meaning, and deceive all but the Initiates.”
― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

“We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.”
― Vernon Linwood Howard

“The successful are not tolerated.”
― Aeschylus, The Ancient Greek Drama Collection: The Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original.
Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”
― Orison Swett Marden, He Who Thinks He Can