“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.”

“Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.”

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

“Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies".”

“There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.”

“One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.”