“Most of our great mediums at present are unpaid amateurs, inaccessible to any but Spiritualists.”
“Something must come your way if you really persevere and get it out of your mind that you should follow it as a terrier follows a rat.”
“Mental harmony does not in the least abrogate common sense.”
“I heard of your remarkable feat in Bristol. My dear chap, why do you go around the world seeking a demonstration of the occult when you are giving one all the time?”
“I know Hope to be a true psychic and will give you my reasons when I treat it, but you can give no man a blank check for honesty on every particular occasion, whether there is a temptation to hedge when psychic power runs low is a question to be considered. I am for an uncompromising honesty—but also for thorough examination based on true knowledge.”
“I am amused by your investigation with the Society for Psychical Research. Have they never thought of investigating you?”
“It was good of you to give those poor invalids a show and you will find yourself in the third sphere alright with your dear wife, world without end, whatever you may believe.”
“Incredulity seems to me to be a sort of insanity under the circumstances.” This was in reference to some photographs of ectoplasm which I questioned.
“This talk of ‘fake’ is in most cases nonsense and shows our own imperfect knowledge of conditions and of the ways of Controls, who often take short cuts to their ends, having no regard at all to our critical idea.”
“Our opponents talk of one failure and omit a great series of successes. However, truth wins and there is lots of time.”