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.

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

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

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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

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