This subject is so much the most interesting to me of all, that I can't help writing of it to you.

Among all the ways of progress along which the minds of men are moving, this draws me most.

There is much folly and fanaticism, unfortunately, because foolish men and women do not cease to be foolish when they hit upon a truth.

There was a man who hung bracelets upon plane trees.

But it was a tree--it is a truth--notwithstanding; yes, and so much a truth that in twenty years the probability is you will have no more doubters of the immortality of souls, and no more need of Platos to prove it.
We have come here to dip _me_ in warm sea-water, in order to an improvement in strength, for I have been very weak and unwell of late, as perhaps Mrs.Jameson has told you.