Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

Appearances often are deceiving.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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 to fake as the inner vision.

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.