With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.