For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

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

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.