Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

There are some desires that are not desirable.