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.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

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

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

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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