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.

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

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.