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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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.

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

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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