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 sense of hearing.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
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.
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Man lives by imagination.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
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.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
