I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
Annie BesantRepresentative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
Annie BesantThe mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.
Annie BesantOne of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.
Annie Besant