Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

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.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

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

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.