The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum I expected… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived,… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors attached too… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“It will seem to many persons very inconsistent with their ideas of the dignity of a spirit that they should appear and act in… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
