Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well