The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

We know too much and feel too little.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.