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.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.