Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

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