Havelock Ellis

"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."

"'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm."

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

"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."

"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."

"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."

"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

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

"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."

"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."