Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

Eats first, morals after.