Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.