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.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

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

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

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