This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.