But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

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.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

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

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

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