I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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.