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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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