Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.