Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

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

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.