Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.