You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.