Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

Write only of what is important and eternal.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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