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

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

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

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

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

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.