To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

It was incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one was talking.

It showed, not an exaggerated sensibility to sex, but a curious insensibility to it.

A man is a fool who complains that he cannot enter Eden by five gates at once.

Polygamy is a lack of the realization of sex; it is like a man plucking five pears in mere absence of mind.