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

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

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 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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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