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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

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

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

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

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

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