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

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

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.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

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

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

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.