Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

A forest bird never wants a cage.