What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

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.

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

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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