Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

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

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

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.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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

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

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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