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

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

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

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

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

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