You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it