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

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

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.

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

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.