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

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.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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

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