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

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

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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