Henrik Ibsen

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

To live is to war with trolls.

A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.

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

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

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

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.

While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior _ don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Ghosts! [_] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that __alks_ 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. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

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.

Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

The strongest men are the most alone.

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!