Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.