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

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

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.