Vanity Is The Most Despotic And Iniquitous

I Needn't Tell You That Success And Failure Prove Nothing - The Whole Thing Is A Lottery. It's Pleasant To Succeed; But For A Philosophic Mind It Oughtn't To Be Very Upsetting To Fail.

Sex Is The Most Respectable And Holy Thing In All Creation, The Most Serious Act In Life.

Nowadays It Seems That Moral Education Is No Longer Considered Necessary. Attention Is Wholly Centered On Intelligence, While The Heart Life Is Ignored.

Once My Heart Was Captured, Reason Was Shown The Door, Deliberately And With A Sort Of Frantic Joy. I Accepted Everything, I Believed Everything, Without Struggle, Without Suffering, Without Regret, Without False Shame. How Can One Blush For What One Adores?

Oblivion Is The Flower That Grows Best On Graves.