The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

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

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

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

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.