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

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.

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.