The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.