We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.