The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.