There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

To live is to war with trolls.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest men are the most alone.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.