Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.