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

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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