A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.