I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

Write only of what is important and eternal.

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

One must speak about serious things seriously.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.