The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship..

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command..

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks..

Where there is most labour there is not always most life..

There is nothing more fragile than civilization..

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life..

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it..

Every ist writes his own autobiography..

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul..

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career….

The mother is the child's supreme parent..

The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life i….

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself..

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination..

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization..

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Lat….

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray..

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill..

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion..

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance..