Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.