[on Spiritualism:] I Always Knew The Living

If You Have Been Sunned Through And Through Like An Apricot On A Wall From Your Earliest Days, You Are Oversensitive To Any Withdrawal Of Heat.

What A Pity, When Christopher Colombus Discovered America, That He Ever Mentioned It.

From The Happy Expression On Their Faces You Might Have Supposed That They Welcomed The War. I Have Met With Men Who Loved Stamps, And Stones, And Snakes, But I Could Not Imagine Any Man Loving War.

I Was Born In The Country Of Hogg And Scott Between The Yarrow And The Tweed, In The Year 1864.

The First Element Of Greatness Is Fundamental Humbleness (this Should Not Be Confused With Servility); The Second Is Freedom From Self; The Third Is Intrepid Courage, Which, Taken In Its Widest Interpretation, Generally Goes With Truth; And The Fourth-the Power Of Love-although I Have Put It Last, Is The Rarest.