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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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