Appearances often are deceiving.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.

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

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

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?

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.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

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 is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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