Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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