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

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

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.

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

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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