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

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

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.

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

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Beauty is the child of love.

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.