I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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