Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

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

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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