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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.