Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

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

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

Appearances often are deceiving.

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