There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.