The Belief That We Some Day Shall

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.

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.

All Philanthropy — No Age Has Seen More Of It Than Our Own — Is Only A Savoury Fumigation Burning At The Mouth Of A Sewer.

Love Is Moral Even Without Legal Marriage, But Marriage Is Immoral Without Love.

The More Horrifying This World Becomes, The More Art Becomes Abstract.