The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way