Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

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.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

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

The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.