All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.