The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.