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.

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

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 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 higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

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 home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.