“So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.”

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

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

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

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

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

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

People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.

Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.