Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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

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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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