Woman Has Nothing But Her Affections,--and This

For What Is Mysticism? It Is Not The Attempt To Draw Near To God, Not By Rites Or Ceremonies, But By Inward Disposition? Is It Not Merely A Hard Word For 'the Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within'? Heaven Is Neither A Place Nor A Time.

We Set The Treatment Of Bodies So High Above The Treatment Of Souls, That The Physician Occupies A Higher Place In Society Than The School-master.

I Have Lived And Slept In The Same Bed With English Countesses And Prussian Farm Women... No Woman Has Excited Passions Among Women More Than I Have.

People Say The Effect Is Only On The Mind. It Is No Such Thing. The Effect Is On The Body, Too. Little As We Know About The Way In Which We Are Affected By Form, By Color, And Light, We Do Know This, That They Have An Actual Physical Effect. Variety Of Form And Brilliancy Of Color In The Objects Presented To Patients, Are Actual Means Of Recovery.

The Craving For 'the Return Of The Day', Which The Sick So Constantly Evince, Is Generally Nothing But The Desire For Light.