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

“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.”

“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.”

“Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ 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.”

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

“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”