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

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

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

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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