Love Is The Piety Of

Be Not Familiar With The Idea Of Wrong, For Sin In Fancy Mothers Many An Ugly Fact.

Silence Is A Figure Of Speech, Unanswerable, Short, Cold, But Terribly Severe.

The Miraculous Revelation Of The Old Testament And The New, The Miracles Of Famous Men, Jews, Gentiles, Or Christians, — Then Franklin Had No Religion At All; And It Would Be An Insult To Say That He Believed In The Popular Theology Of His Time, Or Of Ours, For I Find Not A Line From His Pen Indicating Any Such Belief.

Mankind Never Loses Any Good Thing, Physical, Intellectual, Or Moral, Till It Finds A Better, And Then The Loss Is A Gain. No Steps Backward Is The Rule Of Human History. What Is Gained By One Man Is Invested In All Men, And Is A Permanent Investment For All Time.

The Roman Christian Mythology (and Theology) Discourages The Vice Of Licentiousness, And So This Is Better Than The Heathen, But It Encourages Bigotry, Hypocrisy, Cant, And Many Another Vice Which The Older Mother Of Abominations Kept Clear From.