Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from 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.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.