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.

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

Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.

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.

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

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Is human love the growth of the human will ?