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

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

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.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

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

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.