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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

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.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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