Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

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