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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

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.

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