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“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”
“The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.”
“More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.”
“Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.”
“A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.”
“It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.”
“We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.”
“All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.”
“If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.”
“On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.”
“Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.”
“Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.”
“We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.”
“Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.”
“In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.”
“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”
“It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.”
“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.”
“All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.”