The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

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.

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

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

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.