Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. - Henrik Ibsen

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts…it is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us.

Do think it quite incomprehensible that a young girl — when it can be done — without any one knowing — should be glad to have a peep, now and then, into a world which — which she is forbidden to know anything about?