Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom?

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.