Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.