Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.