We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.