In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.