The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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 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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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