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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

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

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.

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