Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.