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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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

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

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.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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