Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

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!

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

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.