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

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

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.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.