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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

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

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.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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