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

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

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

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.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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