There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.