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“ Such joy as ours needs, at first, its intervals; our moments of meeting are our immortality, which flows and ebbs and flows again; but at last, perhaps, they will be endless moments. We were impatient before ”

“ This is as far as I can go toward placating uneasy reason. It is all in vain, and it does not really concern me. I am content with the revealed truth.
As I sat quietly in the dusk, I felt all at once, with a delicious tremor of the heart, that Aline was in the room. If I turned my head a little to the right, I should see her. A very little would suffice, only that I feared to make even the slightest movement, lest it cause her to vanish. I had had impressions somewhat similar before, and they had failed to develop. This influence, however, was more powerful than any preceding one. ”

“ The look which we now exchanged recalled those ineffable privacies of love when earthly hindrances fall away, and we pass beyond the veil to intimacies which mortality is powerless to recover. In such periods there is an upsurging of the soul, and love clothes itself with a body competent to fulfil its celestial aspirations. ”

“ Through it all we could now recognize the movement of a tender power that knows the end from the beginning and never ceases to incline the traveler thither—as a river gleaming through mountain mazes, and sometimes threading underground caverns, fails not to lead the wanderer at last to the ocean. ”

“ The state of which I have just had experience has been succeeded by another—the "every-day" state of a man in possession of his proper senses, and subjected to his customary limitations. The difference between the two, immense though it be, evades description, because it is a difference not of scene but of quality. This homely little apartment of mine, its furnishings and trivial characteristics, didn't withdraw from sight and touch; they remained as matter-of-course and obvious as they do now. ”

“ And as no one's character can be understood until death places the episodes of his life in their right light and proportions, so the nature of spirit remains enigmatic until the riddle of death is solved. ”

“ The event that has just happened is as natural and simple as the genesis of flower from seed—miraculous only as any function of nature involves miracle, that is, by the concealment behind the screen of cause-and-effect of the intrinsic, infinite marvel. ”

“ The bodily senses are the debatable ground—the no-man's land—between the two camps. It is conceivable that they are designed to function on both sides—that man, in his full estate, should be as freely conscious of spiritual as of physical phenomena. ”