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.

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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