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

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

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

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

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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.

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.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.