Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.