The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.