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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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.

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.