“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”

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

“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .”

“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.”

“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!”