The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

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

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

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.

The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.