To live is to war with trolls.

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

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

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man