He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
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.
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.
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid. " Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.
If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?