The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

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

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Brevity - the sister of talent.