“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”

“Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.”

“Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.”

“Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.”

“In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.”

“Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.”

“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”