The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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.

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.