The Place Where Optimism Most Flourishes Is

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.

It Is The Little Writer Rather Than The Great Writer Who Seems Never To Quote, And The Reason Is That He Is Never Really Doing Anything Else.

Dancing And Building Are The Two Primary And Essential Arts. The Art Of Dancing Stands At The Source Of All The Arts That Expressthemselves 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. Music, Acting, Poetry Proceed In The One Mighty Stream; Sculpture, Painting, All The Arts Of Design, In The Other. There Is No Primary Art Outside These Two Arts, For Their Origin Is Far Earlier Than Man Himself; And Dancing Came First.

Dancing As An Art, We May Be Sure, Cannot Die Out, But Will Always Be Undergoing A Rebirth. Not Merely As An Art, But Also As A Social Custom, It Perpetually Emerges Afresh From The Soul Of The People.

The Absence Of Flaw In Beauty Is Itself A Flaw.