My greatest fault is that if any one starts me upon a subject I know anything about, I immediately become didactic.

So I paused and reflected that Isaacs, being, as he himself declared, frequently in the society of an "adept" of a high class, was sure to know a great deal more than I.
"I too," he said, "have been greatly struck, and sometimes almost converted, by the beauty of the higher Buddhist thoughts.

As for their apparently supernatural powers and what they do with them, I care nothing about phenomena of that description.

We live in a land where marvels are common enough.

Who has ever explained the mango trick, or the basket trick, or the man who throws a rope up into the air and then climbs up it and takes the rope after him, disappearing into blue space?
And yet you have seen those things--I have seen them, every one has seen them,--and the performers claim no supernatural agency or assistance.