Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

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

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

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

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.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.