When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

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

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!