The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

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.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.