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 is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

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.

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

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

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

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.