Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

Being gifted needs courage.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.