Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

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

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

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

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.

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.