A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."