The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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