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 needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

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

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda