“Should the patient appear to have any contagious disease, you will take care to be always active while near him, so as always to impart and not receive; that is to say, to sustain your attention and employ your will, that you may throw off the fluid from you. You will also avoid as much as possible immediate contact.”

“The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.”

“What have future generations ever done for us?”

“Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.”

“Wonderful to say this greatly desiderated, and almost unhoped for curative agent [animal magnetism] not only exists in nature, but is an essential element of the human constitution, (varying in different persons, of course, like all other bodily and mental gifts,) and most persons possess the power of curing others, or of being themselves cured occasionally by an inherent sanitive influence, propagable between different individuals; for health is transmissible as well as disease.”