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

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

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

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

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 that deceives does so by casting a spell.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.