Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

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

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.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.