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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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.

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