Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.