Edward Eggleston

I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phrenomagnetism, and the od force—I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

The people liked the prospect of the end of the world because it would be a spectacle, something to relieve the fearful monotony of their lives. Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as …

Shrews are tamed only by silence.