Havelock Ellis

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.