There Is Nothing More Fragile Than Civilization.

There Has Never Been Any Country At Every Moment So Virtuous And So Wise That It Has Not Sometimes Needed To Be Saved From Itself.

Reproduction Is So Primitive And Fundamental A Function Of Vital Organisms That The Mechanism By Which It Is Assured Is Highly Complex And Not Yet Clearly Understood. It Is Not Necessarily Connected With Sex, Nor Is Sex Necessarily Connected With Reproduction.

We Cannot Remain Consistent With The World Save By Growing Inconsistent With Our Past Selves.

No Faith Is Our Own That We Have Not Arduously Won.

It Is Only The Great Men Who Are Truly Obscene. If They Had Not Dared To Be Obscene, They Could Never Have Dared To Be Great.