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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.