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

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

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

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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 fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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