Beauty Is The Child Of Love.

There Is Nothing More Fragile Than Civilization.

A Sublime Faith In Human Imbecility Has Seldom Led Those Who Cherish It Astray.

Reproduction Is So Primitive And Fundamental A Function Of Vital Organisms That The Mechanism By Which It Is Assured Is Highly Complex And Not Yet Clearly Understood. It Is Not Necessarily Connected With Sex, Nor Is Sex Necessarily Connected With Reproduction.

Here, Where We Reach The Sphere Of Mathematics, We Are Among Processes Which Seem To Some The Most Inhuman Of All Human Activities And The Most Remote From Poetry. Yet It Is Here That The Artist Has The Fullest Scope Of His Imagination.

Civilized Men Arrived In The Pacific, Armed With Alcohol, Syphilis, Trousers, And The Bible.