“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”

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

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

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

“When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event...”

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”

“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.”