Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.