Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

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

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

The strong must learn to be lonely.