The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.