The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

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.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.