The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Henry Ellis

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Henry Ellis

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
Henry Ellis

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Henry Ellis

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Henry Ellis

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.
Henry Ellis

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ellis

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.
Henry Ellis

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Henry Ellis

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Henry Ellis

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Henry Ellis

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Henry Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Henry Ellis

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Henry Ellis

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

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Ellis