In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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