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.

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.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Appearances often are deceiving.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

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.

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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