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

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

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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.