Occupation: Playwright Birth: March 20, 1828 Death: May 23, 1906
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother..
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built u….
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'..
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it..
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting..
The strong must learn to be lonely..
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt..
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt..
The starving poet business is no good nowadays..
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friend….
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself..
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed..
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around ….
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves..
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth..