Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

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

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

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.