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.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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

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.

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.