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.

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

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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