Appearances often are deceiving.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

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.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

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

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

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.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.