Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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 fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

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

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

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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.