Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.