What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

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.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.