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

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.