Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

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

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

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.