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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

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