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.

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.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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