Albert Pike's Quotes

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.