Appearances often are deceiving.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.