I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

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

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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