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.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

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

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

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

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.