Nothing Gives Small Minds A Better Handle

The Church Is A System, - But Whether It Is As Much Founded On The Teaching Of Our Lord, Who Was Divine, As On The Teaching Of St. Paul, Who Was Not Divine, Is A Question To Me Of Much Perplexity.

Pleasure For Others Is The Only Pleasure Possible To Me. I Assure You I'm Quite Selfish! - I'm Greedy For The Happiness Of Those I Love - And If They Can't Or Won't Be Happy I'm Perfectly Miserable.

Love Clamors Far More Incessantly And Passionately At A Closed Gate Than An Open One!

It Seems A Silly Kind O' Business To Bring Us Into The World At All For No Special Reason 'cept To Take Us Out Of It Again Just As Folks 'ave Learned To Know Us A Bit And Find Us Useful.

The World Is Not Always Kind To A Clever Woman Even When She Is Visibly Known To Be Earning Her Own Living. There Are Always Spiteful Tongues Wagging In The Secret Corners And Byways, Ready To Assert That Her Work Is Not Her Own And And That Some Man Is In The Background, Helping To Keep Her!