A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. - Henrik Ibsen

Brand: Answer me, God, in the jaws of death:
Is there no salvation for the Will of Man?
No small measure of salvation?
[The avalanche buries him. The valley is swallowed up.]
A Voice: [Calls through the crashing thunder] He is the God of Love.

A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years — seldom longer.

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.