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.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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