“Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.”

“The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.”

“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”

“They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.”

“There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.”

“And he knew that he would never come again, and that lost magic would not come again. Lost now was all of it-the street, the heat, King's Highway, and Tom the Piper's son, all mixed in with the vast and drowsy murmur of the Fair, and with the sense of absence in the afternoon, and the house that waited, and the child that dreamed. And out of the enchanted wood, that thicket of man's memory, Eugene knew that the dark eye and the quiet face of his friend and brother-poor child, life's stranger, and life's exile, lost like all of us, a cipher in blind mazes, long ago-the lost boy was gone forever, and would not return.”

“the road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom”