“I do not care to see men better off – but better!”

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”

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

“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.”

“If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”

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

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”