Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.