The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.