The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
