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.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

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

Art, that great undogmatized church.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

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.

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