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.

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.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.