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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.