The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's 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 can't get rid of them.

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

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

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

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

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.