All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

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

The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

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

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

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