A Thousand Words Will Not Leave So

I Believe That Before Anything Else I'm A Human Being -- Just As Much As You Are... Or At Any Rate I Shall Try To Become One. I Know Quite Well That Most People Would Agree With You, Torvald, And That You Have Warrant For It In Books; But I Can't Be Satisfied Any Longer With What Most People Say, And With What's In Books. I Must Think Things Out For Myself And Try To Understand Them.

You Have Never Loved Me. You Have Only Thought It Pleasant To Be In Love With Me.

Different People Have Different Duties Assigned Them By Nature; Nature Has Given One The Power Or The Desire To Do This, The Other That. Each Bird Must Sing With His Own Throat.

What's A Man's First Duty? The Answer Is Brief: To Be Himself.

And What If I Did Run My Ship Aground; Oh, Still It Was Splendid To Sail It!