The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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.

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.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.