Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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