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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

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.

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.

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