To the magic eye, magic alone is commonplace, everything else is unknown, unguessed, and undespised.

Magic people are always obvious--so obvious that we veteran souls can rarely understand them,--they are never subtle, and though they are new, they are never Modern.

You may tell them in your cynical way that to-day is the only real day, and that there is nothing more unmentionable than yesterday except the day before.

They will admire your cleverness very much, but the next moment you will find the witch sobbing over Tennyson, or the wizard smiling at the quaint fancies of Sir Edwin Landseer.

You cannot really stir up magic people with ordinary human people.