One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.