Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.