Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.