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.

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

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

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

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

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.