Ellis, Havelock

"What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing." - Impressions and Comments

"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." - Impressions and Comments

"Jealousy: that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive." - On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue

"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum." - The Dance of Life