The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

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.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

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

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.