We have too much sex on the brain, and too little of it elsewhere.
Mankind is curiously melodramatic; full of affected reverence for its droll little institutions.
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Chastity is an insult to the Creator and an abomination to man and beast.
No modern of any race, I fancy, can divest himself of the notion that one man is as good as another; in the eyes of God, they add - meaning in their own eyes. No Greek, no ancient of any race, I fancy, could have burdened himself with so preposterous a delusion.
The ideal citizen is not the ideal man.
Animals have their sufferings, but they are not encouraged to tell us about them. Perhaps that is why God made them dumb.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Everything is worth talking about.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two.
If one dream can be called more absurd than another, this of universal brotherhood is surely the absurdest that ever sat in our poor deluded brain, and the present state of the world a sound commentary on it.
Nothing ages a man like living always with the same woman.
The Latin is either puerile or adult. The Englishman remains adolescent.
By the aid of science millions of the best of our race are annihilated in a moment; by its aid millions of the worst are artificially kept alive, when they should be allowed to die.
We are all lost sheep, and none the worse for that.
Some trouble would have been avoided if Catholicism had never strayed beyond the Mediterranean basin. There, rooted in that old paganism - there is its home.
It is the drawback of all sea-side places that half the landscape is unavailable for purposes of human locomotion, being it covered with useless water.
The pestilential theory, that life is given us on trust.