What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage…

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“without noise of drums or”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“ground the coursing of flocks run wild.”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul.…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“ In genere, femeia nu-si insala barbatul si nu-l tradeaza, daca el singur nu-i acela care sa-i strice sau sa-i calce inima singur in…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures,…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and the wilderness.…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz