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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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.

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

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