It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.