Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

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

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

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.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.