Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.

We have folklore and superstition and magic. The first book I ever wrote was on magic incantations written by Jewish magi.

He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in.