Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.'…

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz