The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.