The fact is certain because it is impossible.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

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.

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

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.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.