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.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

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.

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

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

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.