Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

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

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