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

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

To live is to war with trolls.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.