The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....