It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have ….

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible..

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are be….

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide..

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet cl….

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness..

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our ….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes ….

Liberty is always unfinished business.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God..

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution..

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new….

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mothe….

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum..

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great..

Beauty is the child of love..

When love is suppressed hate takes its place..

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctiv….

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product..

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else..