“I spoke of the Davenport Brothers. Your word on the matter knowing, as you do both the man and the possibilities of his art, would be final.” “You are to me a perpetual mystery. No doubt you are to everyone.” “In a fair light I saw my dead Mother as clearly as I ever saw her in life. I am a cool observer and I do not make mistakes. It was wonderful--but it taught me nothing I did not know before.” “Our best remembrances to your wife and yourself. For God’s sake be careful in those fearsome feats of yours. You ought to be able to retire now.” “These clairvoyants whose names I have given you are passive agents in themselves and powerless. If left to themselves they guess and muddle--as they sometimes do, when the true connection is formed, all is clear. That connection depends on the forces beyond, which are repelled by frivolity or curiosity but act under the impulse of sympathy.” “I see that you know a great deal about the negative side of Spiritualism.” “If you think of a lost friend before going to a seance and breathe a prayer that you may be allowed to get in touch you will have a chance--otherwise none. It really does depend upon psychic or mental vibrations and harmonies.” “I fear there is much fraud among American mediums where Spiritualism seems to have deservedly fallen into disrepute. Even when genuine it is used for stock exchange, and other base worldly purposes. No wonder it has sunk low in the very land that was honored by the first Spiritual manifestations of the series.” “You certainly have very wonderful powers, whether inborn or acquired.” “I envy you the privilege of having met Ira Davenport.” “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.