Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.