“It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.”

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

The strongest men are the most alone.

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.