For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

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

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.