Havelock Ellis
“There has never been a country so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”
“Charm is a woman’s strength, just as strength is a man’s charm.”
“The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.”
“Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money; in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
“All civilization is from time to time a thin crust over a volcano.”
“A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”
“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
“To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.”