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.

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

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

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

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 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.

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.