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.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

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.

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

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

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.