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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

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

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.