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

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.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

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

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

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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

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