Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock EllisCharm" โ which means the power to effect work without employing brute force โ is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock EllisFor 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.
Havelock EllisAll arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
Havelock EllisCourtship, 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.
Havelock Ellis