Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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