The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world’s evolution.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content...

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

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.