The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.