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

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.