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

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

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.