"A so-called magician, more than a poet, must be born with a peculiar aptitude for the calling. He must first of all p…"

"The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosi…"

"That famous trick, related by nearly every writer on Hindu jugglery, of youths tossing balls of twine in the air and …"

"No one regards the magician today as other than an ordinary man gifted with no extraordinary powers. The spectators c…"

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."

"Persecution is upon us; it will be terrible; we will pass through torrents of blood."

"France must have the blood of the pure to raise her again; which one of us indeed, is worthy to offer his life, and w…"

"The King, with whom I had this Discourse, was so affected with the Truth of it, that, You are in the right, said he t…"

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"

"A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion."