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

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

“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.”

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”

“once there was a crow, it flew from the field to the hill, from hedge to hedge, and lived its life. then it died and rotted away. -what's the sense in it? there just ISN'T any!”

“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!”