It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

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

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.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

It is no use lying to one's self.