Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. [ Ouida ]

Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus. [ J. Johnson ]

A man of genius may sometimes suffer a miserable sterility; but at other times he will feel himself the magician of thought. [ John Foster ]

Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician - he knows everything. [ Juv ]

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid. [ Willmott ]