God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Appearances often are deceiving.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

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

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.