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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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