Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.