For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

We put our love where we have put our labor.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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.

Our distrust is very expensive.