Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!