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

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

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.