As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

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

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.