Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

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.

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

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Appearances often are deceiving.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

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

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

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.