There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

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 sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

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