That Child Whose Mother Has Never Smiled

Man Is A Rational Animal. He Can Think Up A Reason For Anything He Wants To Believe.

There Are Very Honest People Who Do Not Think That They Have Had A Bargain Unless They Have Cheated A Merchant.

Good Angels Are Fallible ... They Sin Every Day And Fall From Heaven Like Flies.

Theologians And Philosophers, Who Make God The Creator Of Nature And The Architect Of The Universe, Reveal Him To Us As An Illogical And Unbalanced Being. They Declare He Is Benevolent Because They Are Afraid Of Him, But They Are Forced To Admit The Truth That His Ways Are Vicious And Beyond Understanding. They Attribute A Malignity To Him Seldom To Be Found In Any Human Being. And That Is How They Get Human Beings To Worship Him. For Our Miserable Species Would Never Lavish Worship On A Just And Benevolent God From Whom They Had Nothing To Fear.

Ugly Women May Be Naturally Quite As Capricious As Pretty Ones; But As They Are Never Petted And Spoiled, And As No Allowances Are Made For Them, They Soon Find Themselves Obliged Either To Suppress Their Whims Or To Hide Them.