There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

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

The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.