Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.

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

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

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

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

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

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