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.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.