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.

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

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

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.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

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

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