Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.
You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.
I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.