...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

Liberty is always unfinished business

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.