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.
Ellen KeyThe educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen KeyConventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.
Ellen Key