The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes - those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it - those who wish for something better and try to create it. Without these two classes the world would be badly off. They are the very conditions of progress, both the one and the other. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be sati…

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to p…

Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts - suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may c…

I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like the present.

'Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants a…

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.