Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.