magician quotes

All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command: emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; A sound magician is a demi-god.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.