Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.