And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

A friend married is a friend lost.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

A forest bird never wants a cage.