It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.