“Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery.”

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”

“But you cannot have an unnatural welfare state, unless you also have unnatural birth control, otherwise the end result will be misery even greater than that which obtains in nature.”

“The half is greater than the whole.”

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”

“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”

“The times we live in are alternately derided for their failings and romanticized for their emerging opportunities. It sometimes seems that we now live amid greater violence, greater uncertainty; that the world suffers more conflicts and tragedies; that the poor are poorer and greater in number; that race, ethnicity and nationalism divide us more intractably than ever before.
But that is not so. Human beings are still capable of violence and cruelty. We all succumb to sin. But look back at any preceding century or even just a few decades, and you will see cruelty, violence and misery on a scale that is, with few exceptions, unknown today.”