So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

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

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

There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiatedas to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.

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.