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

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

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

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

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

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.