Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

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

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

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

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.