People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.