The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.