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

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.