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

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

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

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.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.