There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.