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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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