What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility