To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.