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

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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