Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

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

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

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

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

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.