Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

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

The strong must learn to be lonely.

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.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.