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

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

The strong must learn to be lonely.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

A forest bird never wants a cage.