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.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

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.

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

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

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