Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

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