Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.