Appearances often are deceiving.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

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

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.