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

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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Men willingly believe what they wish.