If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.