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

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.