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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.