Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.