I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I can do whatever I want.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.