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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.

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

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