Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law to the intelligence of another day.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

But it has in addition an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.

And as I have said it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.