If I Grapple With Sin

Women Have, Commonly, A Very Positive Moral Sense; That Which They Will, Is Right; That Which They Reject, Is Wrong; And Their Will, In Most Cases, Ends By Settling The Moral.

In Correct Theology, The Virgin Ought Not To Be Represented In Bed, For She Could Not Suffer Like Ordinary Women, But Her Palace At Chartres Is Not Much Troubled By Theology, And To Her, As Empress-mother, The Pain Of Child-birth Was A Pleasure Which She Wanted Her People To Share.

If One Shed Tears, They Must Be Shed On One's Pillow.

The Woman Had Once Been Supreme; In France She Still Seemed Potent, Not Merely As A Sentiment But As A Force; Why Was She Unknownin America? For Evidently America Was Ashamed Of Her, And She Was Ashamed Of Herself, Otherwise They Would Not Have Strewn Fig-leaves So Profusely All Over Her. When She Was A True Force, She Was Ignorant Of Fig-leaves, But The Monthly-magazine-made American Female Had Not A Feature That Would Have Been Recognized By Adam. The Trait Was Notorious, And Often Humorous, But Anyone Brought Up Among Puritans Knew That Sex Was Sin. In Any Previous Age, Sex Was Strength.

Every Man Should Have A Fair-sized Cemetary In Which To Bury The Faults Of His Friends.