The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in...

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in...

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side,...

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side,...

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has...

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has...

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of...

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of...

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as...

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as...

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful...

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful...

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they...

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they...

It takes a long time to become young.

It takes a long time to become young.