All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.