It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.