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.

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 has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

They've never really done real well. They're very average. They may need more fertile soil than what we have here.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds

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?