Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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