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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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